Why I Lie: Stories

by Michael Gills

Why I Lie tells the painful and hilarious story of a down home Arkansas boy's efforts to make good. Jack Smith, the protagonist of this story cycle, is an unwilling ne'er-do-well, from "people who ate roadkill, whose hearts got broken early on and stayed that way," for whom "being poor was a way of thinking, a mindset you couldn't outrun with a suitcase full of money." The ten stories in this powerful collection trace Jack's ongoing attempts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874175143
• ISBN13: 9780874175141
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 9.0"