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West, Jacqueline

Dreamers Often Lie

357 pp. | Dial | April, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8037-3863-8 $17.99
(4) YA Plots of several Shakespeare plays weave through this novel about Jaye's struggle to recover from a head injury, maintain her role in the school play, elude the attention of a boy her family loves, and develop a romance with her real "Romeo." Unreliable narration includes hallucinatory appearances by Shakespeare and his characters to reinforce Jaye's choices and problems, but the device is somewhat overused.
Reviewer: Megan Lynn Isaac

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