No Filter and Other Lies
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
You should know, right now, that I'm a liar.
They're usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies. Not so much lies as lie adjacent. But they're still lies...
Golden-haired Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, and tons of followers. Her picture-perfect existence seems eminently enviable.
Except it's all fake.
"Max" is actually Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic 17-year-old living in drab Bakersfield, California. Nothing glamorous about her existence—just bad house parties, a crap school year, and the awkwardness of dealing with best friend Hari's unrequited love.
But while Kat's life is far from perfect, she thrives as Max: doling out advice, sharing beautiful photos, networking with fans, even finding a real friend (or more?—Is Kat into girls!?) in a gorgeous Fat follower named Elena. But the closer Elena and "Max" get, the more Kat feels she has to keep up the façade. "Max" is the first time people have really listened to what Kat has to say—and after a lifetime of invisibility (including ice-cold indifference from her parents) can she really give that up?
But when one of Kat's posts goes viral and gets back to the girl she's been stealing photos from, her entire world—real and fake—comes crashing down around her. Can she escape the web of lies she's woven without hurting the people she loves?
This insightful, provocative novel—hilarious and raw by turns—is the second book from Crystal Maldonado, author of smash-hit New England Book Award Winner Fat Chance, Charlie Vega. Brilliantly plotted, deeply sensitive, and rich in voice, No Filter and Other Lies deftly addresses FOMO, first love, one-sided love, frayed family ties, raced exclusion on social media, queer awakenings, and learning to live with—and love—yourself.
Because the most powerful lies are the lies we tell ourselves.
Named to the ALA Rainbow Roundtable's Rainbow Book List!
A POPSUGAR Best YA • A Seventeen Best YA • A Good Housekeeping Best YA Novel of the Year • A Latina Media Most Anticipated Latina Book of the Year • A Nerdist Most Anticipated Book • A School Library Journal Not-to-Miss Latinx Book • A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
"Ultrasmart."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Stunning."—Nerdist
"Brings me to tears."—Latinxs in Kid Lit
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Maldonado (Fat Chance, Charlie Vega) once again displays her gift for portraying complex family dynamics and layered interiority in this bighearted sophomore novel about a teen photographer who finds herself weaving an increasingly tangled web of lies via a fake Instagram account. Despite possessing an excellent aesthetic sensibility and burgeoning photography skills, high school student Kat Sanchez has a "tragic" 209 followers on Instagram. But as she straightforwardly confides to readers, "no one's checking for the life of a fat seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican girl who lives in Bakersfield" when "Instagram, the internet, and the world all seem to be made for beautiful thin white girls." So on the heels of a bad day, Kat creates an account for Max Monroe, an L.A.-based influencer she manufactures using photos of her white coworker Becca ("the most model-looking person I know"), and decides not to delete it because of the reception—and a DM from a pretty girl with pale skin and pink hair. Maldonado's writing has a warm and relatable feel, full of insight regarding societal expectations, accountability, and the need to belong within one's own family and the wider world. An ultrasmart contemporary that fully understands what teens face in today's social media–obsessed landscape. Ages 14–up.
Customer Reviews
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