Once Upon a Lie — Michael French

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  • Mar-2016
  • Terra Nova Books
  • ISBN: 1938288653
  • ISBN13: 9781938288654

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Once Upon a Lie is about two strangers who become unlikely friends,only to unintentionally put each other's future in jeopardy.  JaleelRobeson, a gifted, eighteen year old black man, falsely accused of murderinghis father in a small Texas town, is on the run.  He assumes a newidentity in 1980s Los Angeles as a successful student on his way to college. Alexandra Baten, a restless sixteen year old white teenager, lives in aprivileged Toluca Lake family but feels trapped by her parents' values.
 
One weekend, she rides her bike into a rundown neighborhood, meeting a youngblack man selling lemonade.  Thus begins a friendship between opposites,at least on the surface, but they learn they have more in common than theyimagine.  Told from each character's point of view in alternatingchapters, we become involved in a gripping tale of two Americas wherediscontent and violence always lurk under the surface.  When they erupt, no one is safe.  

​Once Upon a Lie is both afamily drama and a crime drama, as well as an exploration of interracial love, mother-daughter relationships, and a mystery with impossible-to-anticipatetwists.
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