The Sinclairs come from old New England money. (They own an island off Cape Cod.) The family is scattered throughout the northeast, but they all get together on their island each summer (where each family has its own house). During summer fifteen, the oldest grandchild, Cadence Sinclair Eastman, has an accident, hits her head, and for the remainder of the book, she struggles to remember.
Summer sixteen she is sent off to Europe. Summer seventeen she returns to the island and after several surprising (to Cady and the reader) plot twists, the mystery is solved.
The patriarch Harris Sinclair had three daughters, who married and had three grandchildren close in age: Cadence, Johnny, and Mirren. All the fathers are gone. Johnny’s mother has a boyfriend; his son, Gatwick Matthew Patil, also joins the family each summer. Thus, Gat, Mirren, Johnny, and Cady are four fast friends who spend every summer together but are rarely in contact during the year.
After the summer fifteen accident, Cady has migraines and amnesia and misses enough school to be left back a year. For summer sixteen, her father takes her to Europe. She sends emails to her summer friends, but receives no responses. When she returns to the island for summer seventeen, she hopes to find our what really happened. She does, but not how she (or the reader) expects.
Do not be put off by the high-school protagonists, and middle-grade rating, We Were Liars by E Lockhart for all ages about self-deception, privilege, and humanity. Published in 2014, its relevance today (2018) has grown. Recommended to anyone with children, money, or privilege (you know who you are).
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