E. Lockhart on Family of Liars: The Prequel to We Were Liars: Young Adult Fiction

E. Lockhart is the author of the New York Times bestseller We Were Liars. She also invented a superhero for DC Comics. Her other books include Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero; Again Again; The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, a National Book Award finalist and a Printz Honor book; and Genuine Fraud, a New York Times bestseller. In Family of Liars: The Prequel to We Were Liars (Delacorte Press), readers visit a windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts where a hungry ocean churns with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress and an irresistible, unpredictable boy are introduced. And a summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes unfolds. Welcome back Sinclair family; you were always liars.

Safon Floyd is executive editor at Callisto Media and host of the monthly Books, Bud, and BS book club.