Lessons from a Liar: One woman's struggle with life on the ugly side of survival

By Emily Lindsey

"A cautionary tale about the lies we tell ourselves to stay."
She knew things weren't right. She knew the promises kept breaking. She knew the man she loved was disappearing into something she couldn't fight, couldn't fix, and couldn't outrun. But she stayed - because of love, because of her boys, because leaving felt like admitting that the life she'd built on hope was built on nothing real.
Lessons From A Liar is the raw, unfiltered true story of one woman's decades-long journey through addiction, racism, grief, and the fierce, exhausting love that kept her in a life that was slowly breaking her apart. Set in Central Florida from the late 1980s to the present, drawn directly from journals and lived memory, this is not a story that has been softened or made safe. It is the truth - including the darkest parts.
This book is for the woman who has loved someone she couldn't save. For the mother who held her family together with bleeding hands. For anyone who has ever looked back and asked: why did I stay so long?
Readers call it impossible to put down. They say it made them feel less alone in their own stories. They say it changed the way they see themselves.
For fans of Educated by Tara Westover, Beautiful Boy by David Sheff, and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
Your story deserves to be witnessed. So does hers. Scroll up and read the first pages - you won't stop there.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1090997701
• ISBN13: 9781090997708
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"