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Seventeen-year-old honors student Coretta White’s Tumblr, Little White Lies—her witty thoughts on pretty much . . . everything—has gone viral. She’s got hundreds of thousands of followers; she’s even been offered a TV deal. But Coretta has a secret. She hasn’t been writing all her own posts. Stressed from the demands of the sudden attention, she hired an expert ghostwriter, forty-one-year-old Karl Ristoff, to keep the Tumblr going. Now consumed with guilt, she confesses.
Almost instantly, she suffers a public humiliation. The TV deal disappears. Her boyfriend breaks up with her. Then Karl is thrust into the limelight, only to suffer a dramatic fall himself. Together, they vow to find out who is responsible for ruining both of their lives, and why. But in order to exact justice and a wicked revenge, they must first come clean with each other.
- Sales Rank: #278556 in Books
- Published on: 2016-02-09
- Released on: 2016-02-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .90" w x 5.90" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—Coretta White is a bright 17-year-old black girl whose new "Little White Lies" Tumblr—an expos� of her clueless and awkward parents—has gone viral virtually overnight. She finds herself stuck between celebrity and success, unable to keep up with the demands for new content. She secretly hires a ghostwriter, Karl—a 41-year-old white man. Now, with thousands of followers and a TV deal in the works, Coretta must decide if she can stand the guilt of her false successes. The protagonist eventually confesses, and she loses everything—her media deal, boyfriend, and reputation—while she watches Karl get all the recognition and step into her place in the limelight. This book offers a modern teenage dream in real time that ultimately leads to a crash and burn—proving that people are not always what they appear. At times, this novel reads like a trendy gossip magazine, but the fun, quick pace and strong female protagonist elevate it. Coretta's parents, refreshingly, aren't the typical absent parents of YA. VERDICT This book screams pop culture but may also spark deeper discussions about cultural appropriation and honesty.—Christina Pesiri, Michael F. Stokes Elementary School Library, Island Trees-Levittown NY
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Praise for Little White Lies
"An over-the-top, ripped-from-the-headlines morality tale sure to be in demand by media-savvy teens familiar with Bey and Kanye, #BlackTwitter and white privilege, after-school altruism, and scam laptop donations to Africa. Today’s brave new world demands more than just the three Rs; Baker and Hastie prove revenge and redemption are requirements, too."
—Booklist
“This book is funny, smart and entertains the brain like few books do today. I highly recommend!"�
—Michael Render a.k.a. “Killer Mike,"�Rapper, Activist, and Entrepreneur�
"Little White Lies�is a compelling read based on an all too real possibility in today's teen world of social media."
—Midwest Book Review
"Little White Lies is a hilarious, righteous, and page-turning coming-of-age story. Imagine Judy Blume meets Candace Bushnell meets Harper Lee all in one novel. You won't be able to put it down . . . and be sure to read the appendices!"
—Dorian Warren, host of MSNBC’s Nerding Out
"What nail-biting fun! Little White Lies�is millennial mayhem and magic. All I want to know is what's next?"
—Rita Williams-Garcia, Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of P.S. Be Eleven and One Crazy Summer
About the Author
Brianna Baker is an actress, improviser, writer, and lover of cheese who lives in Los Angeles, California. Brianna graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University. Her autobiographical one-woman show Bede, about her blissfully ignorant childhood as a biracial tomboy, was named one of the Best Comedy Shows by Timeout Chicago. She co-wrote, co-created and co-starred in the award-winning web series Young Couple. Despite her greatest efforts, Brianna is still not very good at math.
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F. Bowman Hastie III is at least as old as Karl Ristoff. He has ghostwritten for such #1 New York Times bestselling young adult authors as Newbery winner Katherine Applegate and Francine Pascal, the iconic creator of the Fearless series and the Sweet Valley series, which has sold half a billion copies worldwide. The first book to carry his own name was Portrait of the Dog as a Young Artist, the biography of his Jack Russell terrier, the late Tillamook Cheddar a.k.a. Tillie. Mr. Hastie lives in Brooklyn with Tillie’s son, Doc Chinook Strongheart Cheddar.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The exchanges are written in brilliant, edgy language that feels like NOW
By richard klein
I’m not in the habit of reading teen fiction, but a friend put me on to Little White Lies, by Brianna Baker and F. Bowman Hastie III (Soho Press). It’s a vivid Twenty-first Century version of what in the Eighteenth Century was called an epistolary novel. It consists of exchanges between a seventeen year old African-American teenager and a middle aged White guy who become her collaborator on a blog written for teenagers, which become an instant success and leads to media offers. But the heroine Coretta has a secret she can’t reveal: much of the blog is actually written by Karl, her ghostwriter. Complications ensue. The exchanges are written in brilliant, edgy language that feels like NOW. It uses multiple fonts and graphic elements to reflect the different media in which the characters communicate about life and popular culture. On the way they say the smartest things I’ve ever read about Beyonc� and Kanye West. I loved this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
I'm really amazed at all the negative reaction to this book
By Rinku Sen
I'm really amazed at all the negative reaction to this book. It's far better than most of the YA stuff I read. The book's premise hooked me right from the beginning. I found the voice of both characters totally believable, the combination of a Black teen and White ghostwriter approaching middle age was unusual, and the way in which they came across each other reminded me of all sorts of creative alliances I know about. I found the New Yorkers to be just like the middle class New Yorkers I know. I liked them fine -- they're interesting and also shallow, observant and also self-obsessed, smart and also blind to things they don't want to deal with. There was a lot to identify with here.
What I really liked about the book was watching these essentially self centered characters struggle with creativity, fame, and secrets. They point to some of our societal challenges, including the ability to get to fast, anonymous fame that can easily run off with your personality. A great first collaboration that I hope to see more of.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Very timely, fun, raucous read
By Martin Perna
I read through Little White Lies in one night. Like the movie "Grizzly Man," I began the book with a basic idea of what was going to happen, but not how.
The pace of the book, is kind of dizzying, but it works for the story: it mirrors the crazy speed at which someone can become a viral Internet sensation overnight, We're thrust into the life of Coretta, a precocious, stunningly smart and motivated Black teenager in her last year of high school. She has somewhat conservative but supportive parents who drive her to be a high achiever at her school.
One day, she gets annoyed at some of their remarks at the breakfast table, fires off a blog post in reaction and goes to school. Through her well-meaning but clumsy best friend, she finds out that her blog post has gone viral. Coretta writes and few more posts and in a week or so, she has tens of thousands of followers. In the meantime, her boyfriend's parents, who sit on the board a large media company, take a shine to Coretta's blog and forward it to the heads of the media company, who reach out to Coretta for development for a TV show.
All of this, in the span of just days, has sent Coretta into a tailspin as she tries to manage her normal teenage life: school, boyfriend, school activities, trying to get into a good college. At this point, she is about to lose it, when Karl enters the picture.
Karl is a snarky early 40s white professional ghostwriter who has done a bunch of corporate ghostwriting as well as having successfully managed several social media accounts of prominent people. Far from a typical PR person, he's a eccentric who happened to go through adolescence in the 90s as a hip hop head and has all the amazing and fraught tendencies that one might imagine as a 14 year old whose immersion into Black American culture is Public Enemy, Native Tongues, etc.
Coretta's best friend, seeing the strain that being an Internet celebrity is placing on Coretta, arranges, through her parents, for Coretta and Karl to discuss working together, with Karl as a ghostwriter. Although somewhat apprehensive, Coretta agrees. Things get off to a good start, with a fairly harmonious working relationship, and Karl having a fairly good grip on the parameters of his engagement. When he writes a piece about Beyonce that far exceeds any of the posts that Coretta has written on her own, and Coretta locks in a TV deal with her as the star, things begin to unravel to the point that Coretta reveals that she is no longer the sole writer of the blog.
There's a lot more in there, but those are the bizarre and juicy suprises and twists that make the book worth reading.
I enjoyed the two voices in dialogue: Ms. Brown creates a convincing Coretta, a bold, opinionated and articulate high school student, while Mr. Hastie creates a clever foil of Karl, a liberal, cynical 41 year old journeyman social media guru/stoner with Black Power tendencies.
The book takes the form of chapters written in each character's voice, as well as Gchats and text messages between them that happen in the book. While this is unconventional and a little jarring at first, it adds to the authenticity of the book and the pacing...the Internet never sleeps, and because it doesn't, it makes it hard for us to do so.
This book is worth reading if you're interested in: 1) the social media and viral video phenomenon 2) adolescents becoming politicized and using the Internet as a platform for social justice 3) the ability of large media corporations to quickly co-opt organic content (writing, videos, etc) on the Internet and put their stamp on it. 4) novels with multiple authors and multiple voices in conversation (and tension) with each other
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