What I Saw and How I Lied Themes

When What I Saw and How I Lied opens, Evie is still more of a child than a real teenager—she doesn't know much about sex, still wears little girl dresses with lace collars (like a porcelain doll)...

Evie and her mother always say that they stick together like glue in What I Saw and How I Lied, which clues us in to just how important family is to this story. After all, even though Joe isn't Evi...

What I Saw and How I Lied may take place in a ritzy Palm Beach resort, but the historical backdrop is anything but fun and dandy. The story takes place directly following WWII after Evie's stepfath...

With a title like What I Saw and How I Lied, you can pretty much be sure that there's going to be a fair amount of deceit from the characters in the book. Everyone seems to be lying about something...

Yikes. People turn on each other so much in What I Saw and How I Lied that there's more drama than a season of The Real World. There is romantic betrayal in terms of Bev's blatant affair with Peter...

In What I Saw and How I Lied, Evie is just coming into her own as a sexual human being. When she meets Peter Coleridge, young Evie starts to feel desire for him; she doesn't just want him to be her...

The characters in What I Saw and How I Lied pay a great deal of attention to appearances—especially when it comes to female beauty standards and class differences. When the novel opens, Evie is s...

In What I Saw and How I Lied, Peter tells Evie that she has a true moral compass; she's able to know right from wrong easily. Even so though, she gets confused by all of the fuzzy moral areas in th...

In What I Saw and How I Lied, many problems are brought on by Joe Spooner's greed and desire to be financially successful. When Joe returns from the war, he tells his family that he's been given a...

What I Saw and How I Lied takes place at the very end of WWII, and you'd think that since the war has just been fought, there would no longer be any prejudice against Jewish people—especially in...