White Lies is the eloquent story of one woman's narrow escape from the confusion of her time. With insight and humor, White Lies follows Jamaica's struggle for survival and integrity in an age of anxiety as she tries to reconcile herself to the overwhelming inauthenticity she feels in the face of her mother and father's lives. Dr. and Mrs. Just came to America from the death camps of Europe and secluded themselves in the Bible Belt, determined to shield their daughters from the horror they had survived. They wanted to live and to forget-but that wasn't always possible. Sometimes the fierceness and the pain were revealed but never explained. Only with the unintentional assistance of an intimate stranger does Jamaica begin to grasp how her parents were able to make peace with their past.
"White Lies is infused with a comic energy that accelerates toward a surprise ending."
Hartford Courant
"Salamon has created a wonderfully quirky and endearing heroine . . . but she has accomplished an even greater feat: Jamaica is both endearing and enduring. With White Lies, Salamon, who writes her story with exceptional style and readability, has not only given us a heroine about whom we genuinely care, but also is able to tell us something we didn't already know. In fiction, that is a gift to be
Hartford Courant
"The portrayals of Jamaica's Czechoslovak parents, her feisty mother and silent doctor father, and of the beauty and dangers of rural America are evocative and vivid, written with a light, bittersweet poignancy."
