Fredrica Wagman is the author of five previous novels: His Secret Little Wife; Playing House; Magic Man, Magic Man; Peachy; and Mrs. Hornstien. She has four grown children and lives with her husband in New York City.
"Fredrica Wagman writes like no one else: her prose swoops and dips
and soars, taking us inside a strange and captivating fictional
world. The Lie is a wholly original look at the vagaries of love
and desire as told through the vivid fantasies and acute
perceptions of its narrator. An ordinary-seeming wife, mother and
daughter, Ramona Smollens attempts to escape the grip of a painful
past, in which she has had to endure a rageful father and a
monstrously narcissistic mother, only to discover that the glamor
of grownup life wears thin quickly enough and that marriage to a
sympathetic man comes with its own disappointments and deceits.
Identifying as she does with the mangled psyche and erotic allure
of screen siren Rita Hayworth, Ramona speaks a kind of lyric truth
that uncovers the heartbreak nestled inside the layers of daily
life. Her inability to feel sexual pleasure gradually emerges as a
metaphor for the bewildering gap that exists between our earliest
wishes and the eventual shape of our destinies." -- Daphne
Merkin
"Wagman is a writer who notices every bruise and blemish,
especially the psychic ones that never heal without love and
therapy....I have a feeling that Fredrica Wagman is one of
America's best novelists." -- The Head Butler.com
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