We were liars genre6/5/2023 lockhart deftly paints a picture of this blue blood family and their environs, then delves into the emotional price that is paid for being part of this world. Wields his power, playing his three daughters off each other, especially the Over her black pearls and embroidered tablecloths when she dies. Harris holds the power and Tipper exhibits it byįilling their homes with object upon object, leaving her daughters to fight Its important that the setting is isolated insofar as. The island is off the coast of Massachusetts, close to Marthas Vineyard, where Cadence goes to the hospital after the accident. The kitchen and garden, unless she was on “display in pearls and on sailboats.” Cadence lives in Burlington, Vermont during the school year, but the bulk of the action in We Were Liars takes place on a fictitious island called Beechwood. Massachusetts where they summer every year. Patriarch Harris grew theįortune that he came into after graduating Harvard and put his wife Tipper in They also have their own private island off the coast of Story begins has everything to do with this family of “old money Democrats” who The person Cady is and the point she has reached in her life when the Of we were liars is all about the “beautiful Sinclair family.” A few chapters into the novel and it isĬlear why Cady chooses to tell us about her family before she tells us about While Cady tells us about herself in Chapter 2, Chapter 1
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