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Tell Me If You're Lying: Essays
Tell Me If You're Lying: Essays

Funny, exuberant, and often heartbreaking, TELL ME IF YOU'RE LYING examines lies we're told as children and Sarah Sweeney's colorful coming of age.

2016

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Sarah Sweeney
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Aug 23, 2020

Country roads, stuck at home

I returned from Nashville in time for lockdown — and with a country fever Growing up, I spent reluctant summers in the backwoods of North Carolina while my father was hospitalized for Crohn’s disease and my mother worked full-time. Out in the country, my brother and I became the city…

Country Music

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Country roads, stuck at home
Country roads, stuck at home
Country Music

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·Jun 18, 2019

The Way to a Man’s Heart

On the pleasure of cooking… or not cooking, for love — I’really going to miss your cooking, Paul told me on the day I finally moved out of the home we’d shared for three years, his voice creaking with lament. He’d taken a deep breath, winding up to deliver some final parting words, an elegiac salute to our seven years together…

Food

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The Way to a Man’s Heart
The Way to a Man’s Heart
Food

15 min read

Sarah Sweeney

Sarah Sweeney

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Writer, traveler & sometimes journalist. My essay collection “Tell Me If You’re Lying” debuted from Barrelhouse Books in 2016. Visit me at sarah-sweeney.com

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