Big Little Lies

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is chick lit. But some of the best done chick lit I've read. The way Moriarty gets into the heads of her characters, you will recognize not only your friends and acquaintances, you'll recognize yourself. This books title may suggest it is about lies, but is more about bullying. Bulllying that happens on the playground (Mama Bear attack!...wait what if the bully is your kid? What if it is your friends kid?); bullying that happens between moms (which is better, sahm vs. working moms); bullying that happens in marriage and between sex partners; and maybe most significantly the bullying we do to ourselves. What voices do we choose to listen to? What judgements (and hence bullying, even if it is only a cold shoulder) do we participate in? How do we truly break free from being suseptible to bullying?

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