A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself

Peter Ho Davies

eBook - 2021

From an award-winning author, this novel about the choice to start a family is an "achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood."* A People ten Best Books of the Year A New York Times Notable Book of the Year An Independent (UK) twenty Best Books of the Year "Wise, bracingly honest . . . A reassuring reality check . . . Exhilarating." —New York Times Book Review A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political experiences a family can have: to have a child, and conversely, the decision not to have a child. A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraug...ht birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests—and questions that reverberate down the years.When does sorrow turn to shame?When does love become labor?When does chance become choice?When does a diagnosis become destiny?And when does fact become... more