“The Lies We Tell” by Katie Zhao

The specter of anti-Asian hate is never far away in Katie Zhao’s “The Lies We Tell”

The pandemic and the subsequent rise in anti-Asian attacks has made the past few years a scary time for many Asian Americans — particularly women and other vulnerable people. Those fears and anxieties are always in the background in novelist Katie Zhao's latest book "The Lies We Tell," a new thriller that centers on an Asian American first year college student who is determined to discover what happened to a young Asian American student years ago.