A powerfully moving novel of family

love, loyalty, honesty and dishonesty by

the author of Safekeeping and A Fragile

Peace. ""

White Lies is Jonellen Heckler s story

of Sterling, Roz and Quinn, three sisters

close in age but not in temperament, told

through letters they write and receive,

from their college days to adulthood.

In 1963 Sterling, the oldest, starts the

chain of correspondence when she inar-

ties, not out of love, but out of a desire to

be a wife and mother. One at a time, her

sisters leave home, Roz to a clandestine

existence that will haunt her years later,

Quinn to a budding, exhilarating career

as an investigative reporter.

As they write back and forth we see life

at its most intimate--the thrill of new

love, unquenchable ambition, outrageous

success and white lie aftcr white he told

to preserve relationships. For the sisters

come of age in the 60s and 70s, a time of

such upheaval that personal decisions

become political statements that threaten to destroy the bond belween the three

women--if not for the little white lies

they tell.But as Sterling, Roz and Quinn

learn, all lies, nO matter how small, come

with a price.

White Lies is a remarkable portrait of

family life as it really is, by a novelist of

uncommon perception and integrity.