‘Read this novel for a tale that is so empowering that it changes your opinions of the whole world’
Lies We Tell Ourselves is a book about labels and how a person looks at you and instantly decides who you are. Despite being set in 1959 during the American Civil Rights movement it is very relatable to our lives today; not exactly the topic, just the idea of being judged by appearance and then labelled with others’ opinions of you.
In this book Sarah is one of ten black students starting at an all-white high school and the white students, and even white teachers, don’t want them there. They do everything they can to get rid of them; from throwing things at them to calling them names or trying to fight them on their way out of school, they won’t stop at anything to send them back to the school they came from – the school just for African-American children that doesn’t get enough funding to even have the correct equipment.
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