Lie Lay Lain, Bryn Greenwood
Lie Lay Lain, Bryn Greenwood
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Lie Lay Lain

Author: Bryn Greenwood

Narrator: Nikki Zakocs

Unabridged: 11 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/19/2022


Synopsis

Jennifer has a great job and a go-getter fiancé. She's on track for success, until she witnesses a fatal hit-and-run. Mistaking Jennifer for someone else, the dying victim extracts an impossible promise. Jennifer's fiancé wants her to forget the whole incident, but when she closes her eyes, she can still see the bloody face of the woman who asked for her help.

Olivia is in a rut. Burdened with caring for her brain-damaged brother and already feeling like a spinster at 27, she's desperate to escape. In a moment of weakness, she tells a lie that draws an unsuspecting paramedic into her life. As she struggles to expiate the lie, a horrible act of violence will test her resolve to be honest.

Where Jennifer's promise and Olivia's lie intersect, their lives begin to unravel.

About Bryn Greenwood

Bryn Greenwood is a fourth-generation Kansan, and the daughter of a mostly reformed drug dealer. She earned an MA in creative writing and continues to work in academia as an administrator. She is the author of the novels All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Last Will, and Lie Lay Lain. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Chiron Review, Karamu, The Battered Suitcase, and Menda City Review. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christina on February 17, 2023

I loved The Reckless Oath we Made, was a bit on the fence about All the Ugly and Wonderful Things and absolutely did not enjoy this one. The story follows two women who's only connection is the church they attend and for the most part their lives does not really intersect. Neither character felt like......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on June 16, 2014

Jennifer and Olivia are two women on very different trajectories at the beginning of this interesting, well-written novel. (Yes, it unfolds slowly, but that's a good thing--the reader truly gets to know these women and their problems, mistakes, and situations well ... I think some of the reviewers w......more

Goodreads review by Donna on January 07, 2018

This was just a fair book. There was never really a climax to the story, and the Christianity confused me. It really had no part of the plot. Jennifer and Olivia are the two main characters in the book, but they’re not really good friends. The book was readable but definitely wasn’t as good of a rea......more