Ten top books about lies

Miranda Doyle's new memoir is A Book of Untruths. One of her top ten books about lies, as shared at the Guardian:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)

Roy’s beautifully written lies are quiet ones, so quiet and so unspeakable that Estha, a discarded twin, cannot, or will not, speak. The caste system and Ayemenem’s stratified community provokes Estha’s mother first to marry a drunk pathological liar, and once divorced, to find love with an untouchable. Baby Kochamma embarks on a series of fibs to save the family. Like falling dominoes, they crash through Estha’s childhood.

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--Marshal Zeringue