![]() ![]() 2009 WA Premier’s Literary Award, Young Adult Prize.In the opening she promises to tell the whole truth, but as the story continues she retracts or "corrects" statements she'd said before, claiming the new truth to be the real one. The novel is written as though Micah is writing the words, so she is aware of and refers to the audience in the text, to whom she is telling the story. The concept of the story is that Micah is a compulsive liar. The story is told in segments of past and present, moving between Micah's family history and how she met her boyfriend, and with the present as the investigation into Zach's death unfolds. When the novel opens, Micah's boyfriend Zachary, who's been missing, is found dead. ![]() The protagonist of the novel, Micah Wilkins, is a seventeen-year-old biracial girl living in New York with her parents. It is written in first person from the point of view of Micah Wilkins, who introduces herself to the reader as an unreliable narrator. Liar is a 2009 young adult thriller novel by Justine Larbalestier. Children and Young Adult Literature portal. ![]()
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