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The Beautiful Lies We Tell Ourselves: A Collection of Six Novellas
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We tell ourselves beautiful lies because the truth is sometimes too painful, too strange, or too necessary to face.
In these six darkly comic and emotionally unsettling novellas, ordinary people find themselves at the edge of revelation: a woman seeks comfort among her begonias; intimacy between neighbors becomes a dangerous performance; beauty and desire reveal their crueler faces; pain is manipulated, traded, and made to disappear; and families cling to rituals that can no longer protect them.
Moving through grief, sexuality, spiritual longing, cruelty, absurdity, and the fragile hope of reinvention, The Beautiful Lies We Tell Ourselves explores the stories people invent to survive, and what happens when those stories begin to fail.
Adapted by award-winning playwright Ron Simonian from six of his stage plays, this provocative collection blends literary fiction, psychological intensity, and dark humor to illuminate the uncomfortable truths hiding beneath beautiful surfaces.
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