To Be Honest Illustrated by Alexis Seabrook as well as the lives

as well as the lives of their celebrated creators and her own experiences as a student of Russian

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To Be Honest Illustrated by Alexis Seabrook as well as the livesA memoir of great wit and irony about growing up in a family fanatically devoted to honesty, and navigating what came next (Publishers Weekly, starred review). If youre like most people, you probably lied todaymaybe to soften a truth, save face, or keep the peace. Michael Leviton grew up in a home where that was unthinkable. In what he calls his familys little honesty cult, he was taught to say exactly what he thought, never withhold a truth, and