Let's Talk About Books: The Little Liar

Join Let's Talk About Books, a monthly book club.  We will be meeting on Zoom in October. The link to the Zoom will be sent out four (4) days ahead of the meeting and again by 11 AM the day of the meeting.  Please register to receive the Zoom link. 

The meeting is free and open to everyone interested, whether they have read the book or not.

September's title is The Little Liar by Mitch Albom. 

The title is also available on The Palace Project as an eBook or audiobook. The Palace Project is a free library app available in both Google Play and the App Store.   Also available on the Libby app, as an eBook or audiobook. 

Synopsis:

Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. His schoolmate, Fannie, loves him because of it. Nico’s older brother Sebastian resents him for both these facts. When their young lives are torn apart during the war, it will take them decades to find each other again. 

Nico’s innocence and goodness is used against his tightly knit community when a German officer barters Nico’s reputation for honesty into a promise to save his loved ones. When Nico realizes the consequences of the betrayal, he can never tell the truth again. He will spend the rest of this life changing names, changing locations and identities, desperate to find a way to forgiveness—for himself and from the people he loves most.

Albom’s extraordinary storytelling is at its powerful best in his first novel to confront the destruction that lying can wreak both on the world stage as well as on the individual lives that get caught up in it. As The Stranger in the Lifeboat spoke to belief, The Little Liar speaks to hope, in a breathless page-turner that will break your heart open and fill it with the power of the human spirit and the goodness that lies within us all.

Narrated by the voice of Truth itself, The Little Liar is a timeless story about the power of love to ultimately redeem us, no matter how deeply we blame ourselves for our mistakes.