
All the Ways We Lied
Aida Zilelian
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Publisher | Keylight Books |
Publish Date | January 09, 2024 |
Pages | 272 |
Language | English |
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EAN/UPC | 9781684429516 |
Dimensions | 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.2 inches | 1.1 pounds |
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All the Ways We Lied is a masterful, engrossing novel depicting the perfect storm of generational trauma and complicated family dynamics, and the strong women caught at the center of it, all yearning at their core to love and to be loved. Zilelian captures the burden and overwhelm of the eldest immigrant daughter expertly, along with the relatable resentments and grievances of a life spent straining against one's prescribed role in the family ecosystem.
Resilience is a word that's often used when discussing immigrant narratives; All the Ways We Lied examines the cost of what is lost in the name of resilience and survival. The novel follows the women of this Armenian-American family as they reconsider how exactly to thrive on the path they've desperately carved out for themselves when sisterhood, motherhood, marriage, and career were not what they expected. With gorgeous prose and a page-turning plot featuring characters you won't soon forget, this is necessary reading for all children of immigrants." --Christine Kandic Torres, author of The Girls in Queens
"The dark and light of tangled family relations are depicted in the pages of All the Ways We Lied. The book is a warm, entertaining and heart-rending read with a cast of endearing, albeit flawed, characters. Aida Zilelian understands how people are pinned together. How they're shaped by their parents and their parents by the generations before them and, in the case of this Armenian family, by a tragic history of loss and displacement." -- Eve Makis, author of The Spice Box Letters
Aida Zilelian's accomplished second novel unfolds with rare grace and tenderness. The raucous imperfections of the Armenian-American family depicted in its pages, the way they spiral out and inevitably back into each other's lives, their unstinting patience and ultimate kindness towards each other, will remind us of our own. I wish I could spend many more pages with Kohar, Lucine, Azad, and yes, even Takouhi." --Arif Anwar, author of The Storm
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