<p><b style&equals;"background-color&colon; initial&semi;">Some lies protect us&period; Some lies destroy us&period; Most lies do both&period;<&sol;b><&sol;p><p><em>The Lies We Tell<&sol;em> is a fierce&comma; dazzling&comma; heartbreaking collection of stories set across the motor parks&comma; matrimonial bedrooms&comma; and candlelit hostels of Northern Nigeria&period; From the dye pits of Zaria to the rooftops of Abuja&comma; Fatima Bala pulls back the curtain on the secret architecture of Hausa women's lives&comma; the bargains made in silence&comma; the truths swallowed whole&comma; the love offered and withheld and weaponised across generations&period; Spirits move through these pages alongside pharmacists and politicians&period; Grandmothers whisper to unseen things&period; Girls become women and women become ghosts&comma; and some&comma; only some&comma; find their way back&period;<&sol;p><p>Written in a voice that crackles with wit&comma; grief&comma; and an almost unbearable tenderness&comma; these stories ask the question no proverb has ever answered&colon; <em>when the lie is the only thing holding everything together&comma; is it still wrong to tell it&quest;<&sol;em><&sol;p><p><em><br><&sol;em><&sol;p><p>Author&colon; Fatima Bala<&sol;p><p>Publisher&colon; Masobe<&sol;p>