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How We Learned to Lie by Meredith Miller reeled me in with its vivid description. I was fascinated by the concept of two friends growing apart due to the insurmountable weight of their own lies and the roles they play in the violence seeping into their town.

In this slow burning, coming-of-age tale, the characters steal the show. Joan and Daisy have been through thick and thin together, an unlikely duo that has just clicked for as long as they can remember. Joan is strong-willed and stubborn with an insatiable appetite for facts. She’ll dissect anything to get to the truth, both metaphorically and physically when it comes to her interest in marine life. Daisy, on the other hand, is more reserved but loyal to a fault. He’s much less willing to question the status quo if doing so would threaten his friends or family, but for his friends or family, he would go to the ends of the earth. When things begin to fall apart and Joan turns her attention inward, putting everything under a microscope in her search for the truth, Daisy looks outward, finding solace in the telephone lines he can engineer and manipulate to broaden his horizons beyond his hometown.

How We Learned to Lie is such an honest and real look at a friendship crumbling apart even when both participants are trying so hard to cling to the remnants. As violence and drugs begin to plague their small town, Daisy and Joan’s relationship becomes fraught with half-truths and outright lies that can’t help but spiral. It’s an incredibly relatable and well-thought character study of how, once you start lying, it can become almost impossible to stop.

Be warned, this is not a fast-paced novel. It’s not the plot-driven mystery I thought it was going to be when I picked it up. Instead, it’s a vivid and unapologetically self-aware coming-of-age tale that really explores every facet of its lead characters. I do wish the mystery element had been a bit stronger, though. There’s some wonderful meta commentary throughout the book, where both Joan and Daisy actively call out moments and wonder why they didn’t tell the truth, but some of that meta commentary builds up foreshadowing that fell flat for me because the book always opted to shine a light on the characters rather than the plot.

If you’re looking for a novel that really gets into the heads of its characters and picks apart how well-intentioned lies can wear down even the strongest of friendships, consider giving How We Learned to Lie a shot!

Warm thanks to Meredith Miller and the Fantastic Flying Book Club for providing a digital copy in exchange for an honest review.


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How We Learned to Lie Meredith Miller Books Reviews

A dark and explorative read, How We Learned to Lie is about a community and how its violence weaves into the lives of children. The small town atmosphere of the novel is filled with tension; this book focuses deeply on its characters whose emotions are vividly described on the page. Miller’s writing style twists itself to build on the lies told by the characters. The voices are gritty, mean, and yet so full of grief.

Although the main characters of the book, Daisy and Joan are simply bystanders in the harmful lifestyle of their suburban town, Highbone. Joan immerses herself in facts and science to get away from the absence of her mother while Daisy invests time talking to a woman he has never seen. This is the story of children who grow up and apart; it is an examination of how children cling to each other in the turmoil of change, of the secrets they keep trying to cling to the only constant in their life their friendship. I especially loved how Miller portrayed the confusion of these children and how they would rather confide in strangers than each other. It really captures the difficulty of growing up and trying to understand one’s identity apart from their family and friends.

There are subplots of murder and drugs, abuse and corruption, told from the perspective of Daisy and Joan. We know that a community shapes its children and in How We Learned to Lie, Miller reveals the struggle of those who try to escape it.

How We Learned to Lie is a very slow moving read; for some it may feel like nothing is happening but those who like books that are more like an examination of people will enjoy this read.
How We Learned to Lie by Meredith Miller reeled me in with its vivid description. I was fascinated by the concept of two friends growing apart due to the insurmountable weight of their own lies and the roles they play in the violence seeping into their town.

In this slow burning, coming-of-age tale, the characters steal the show. Joan and Daisy have been through thick and thin together, an unlikely duo that has just clicked for as long as they can remember. Joan is strong-willed and stubborn with an insatiable appetite for facts. She’ll dissect anything to get to the truth, both metaphorically and physically when it comes to her interest in marine life. Daisy, on the other hand, is more reserved but loyal to a fault. He’s much less willing to question the status quo if doing so would threaten his friends or family, but for his friends or family, he would go to the ends of the earth. When things begin to fall apart and Joan turns her attention inward, putting everything under a microscope in her search for the truth, Daisy looks outward, finding solace in the telephone lines he can engineer and manipulate to broaden his horizons beyond his hometown.

How We Learned to Lie is such an honest and real look at a friendship crumbling apart even when both participants are trying so hard to cling to the remnants. As violence and drugs begin to plague their small town, Daisy and Joan’s relationship becomes fraught with half-truths and outright lies that can’t help but spiral. It’s an incredibly relatable and well-thought character study of how, once you start lying, it can become almost impossible to stop.

Be warned, this is not a fast-paced novel. It’s not the plot-driven mystery I thought it was going to be when I picked it up. Instead, it’s a vivid and unapologetically self-aware coming-of-age tale that really explores every facet of its lead characters. I do wish the mystery element had been a bit stronger, though. There’s some wonderful meta commentary throughout the book, where both Joan and Daisy actively call out moments and wonder why they didn’t tell the truth, but some of that meta commentary builds up foreshadowing that fell flat for me because the book always opted to shine a light on the characters rather than the plot.

If you’re looking for a novel that really gets into the heads of its characters and picks apart how well-intentioned lies can wear down even the strongest of friendships, consider giving How We Learned to Lie a shot!

Warm thanks to Meredith Miller and the Fantastic Flying Book Club for providing a digital copy in exchange for an honest review.