A review by chillcox15
The Lie And How We Told It by Tommi Parrish

4.0

The Lie and How We Told it is in turns a melancholic and hopeful view at love and interconnectedness (more specifically in the complex net of queerness, the closet, and sex work). Parrish's painted panels are often gorgeous in their flat, waterbrushed colors, and the design of the human bodies, with the heads approximately 25% the size they should be for the bodies, is engaging, especially when one of the characters breaks into a cartoonish rictus of false cheer. Also love the story-within-the-story conceit and the material effects used to pull it off. This is a great graphic novel!