The Little Liar

  AN INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER A  NEW YORK TIMES  NOTABLE BOOK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY  NPR/FRESH AIR ,  WASHINGTON POST ,  THE NEW YORKER , AND  TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 “A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith,  The New York Times Book Review “We all need—we all  deserve— this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles,  The Washington Post From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick  Deacon King Kong  and the National Book Award–winning  The Good Lord Bird , a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of ...

  The Little Liar : A Novel  Kindle Editio   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 . ? Book    Bye Now