My fingers gripped tightly, desperately, wishing for it never to end. Of course, elusivity is all part of Lockhart’s well-known charm as a writer. Readers will feel, through authentic twenty-first century writing, her drowning beneath a sparkling sea. With everything that is known at stake, 17-year-old Carrie Sinclair, narrator and protagonist, does all she can to keep her head above the breaking surface.
In Family of Liars, the elegant disasters that ensue in the depths of family power, money, and all its grand messes, resurface as time rolls in with high tide. Still sobered by sadness, and then a familiar disquietude, I found this story’s ending to be, despite similar emotions experienced in both, more satisfying than that of its precedent. Some less than pleased with the controversial ending to the previous We Were Liars may take a change in stance (no spoilers, I promise) by the end of Lockhart’s latest. A Family of Liars, the Sinclairs are indeed. Scandals are swept out to sea as sweet nothings are told beneath the sound of the waves and the crashing Atlantic.
On a tiny, remote private island off the coast of Massachusetts (Think Martha’s Vineyard), the girls are pretty, and boys are strong. Despite a seemingly perfect appearance, the Sinclair family is no stranger to the obscure, and no exception to the dark and the tainted. The book starts off slow, as sister-story We Were Liars did. “Family of Liars” is a prequel to Lockart’s 2014 We Were Liars, and the author’s latest feat takes one to the same Beechwood Island setting circa, the summer of 1987, where strife on the island rejuvenates a spark in her loyal readers. Habitually, she’s left readers floored by the dazzle of her generational talent, and her stories’ unique breed of artistry, mixed with harsh realism and supplements of dialogue with elements of poems and fantasy. Lockhart has, I assure you, done it again, with her latest fictional release, Family of Liars. “Never take no for an answer,” has long been a family motto, but will Carrie Sinclair get what she wants this time? Approval from her parents, beauty like the rest of the family, and answers- but even in her possession, what she wants may not be what the eldest Sinclair daughter needs.
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