I really enjoyed this well-written book. However, I am only recommending this title to
mature readers.
The narrator, Cadence Sinclair Eastman, has suffered a major
trauma which affects her ability to remember clearly the events of her
fifteenth summer. The memory loss makes her an inconsistent narrator. As a
reader, one cannot truly guarantee that events occurred as Cadence recalls
them.
Cadence’s extended family (her mother’s two sister and
families) spends summers on their privately owned island off the coast of
Massachusetts. Beechwood Island has four huge houses (one for each of the
Sinclair daughters and one for their father & mother.) Cadence has spent
each summer of her life at Beechwood.
Her two cousins, Johnny and Mirren, are her best friends.
The three have always been affectionately known as just “the cousins,” but the
year they were eight, Gat Patil came to the island with Cadence’s Aunt Carrie. After
that the four were known as the liars.
Gat was different from the line of Sinclairs. His skin bore
the color of Indian dissent. Cadence’s granddad and grandma did not accept him.
Cadence’s affection for this boy who is different is
evident, “Gat was my love, my first and only. How could I let him go?”
The trauma that occurs shatters the entire Sinclair line,
but especially Cadence.
Read, We Were Liars
to find out what could possibly have gone so wrong on such an idyllic
summer island.
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