![]() There is something ugly and true in them. “Our family has always loved fairy tales. Carrie’s role as comforter involves reading fairy tales to Rosemary. Haunted by her sister Rosemary, who drowned at age ten, Carrie attempts to help her ghost crossover. ![]() show their love not with honesty or affection, but with loyalty (17). Therefore, the Sinclairs “never speak about medical issues. “The way people see you-it is the way they see all of us” (17). She has always been taught that “we get by, by being busy” (242) and that “being a credit to the family” (17) is expected. Soon, an escape from pain grows into an addiction. Because Carrie Sinclair is depressed and suffering, dealing with issues of acceptance and a search for belonging, she takes codeine and then Halcion to ease her pain. Tucked in the telling, though, Lockhart also shares how messy and miserable that “pretending, lying, trying to have a good time” (219) can become. ![]() We get the benefit of the doubt, the assumption of innocence, conferred by our family name” (277). She not only shares how unearned privilege can lead to “terrible things on top of terrible things” but how those with resources often get a pass: “They assume that girls like us-educated girls from a ‘good family’-they assume we are telling the truth. Lockhart pens a haunting story in Family of Liars. ![]()
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