{"product_id":"the-lies-we-tell","title":"The Lies We Tell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome lies protect us. Some lies destroy us. Most lies do both.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Lies We Tell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a fierce, dazzling, heartbreaking collection of stories set across the motor parks, matrimonial bedrooms, and candlelit hostels of Northern Nigeria. From the dye pits of Zaria to the rooftops of Abuja, Fatima Bala pulls back the curtain on the secret architecture of Hausa women's lives, the bargains made in silence, the truths swallowed whole, the love offered and withheld and weaponised across generations. Spirits move through these pages alongside pharmacists and politicians. Grandmothers whisper to unseen things. Girls become women and women become ghosts, and some, only some, find their way back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten in a voice that crackles with wit, grief, and an almost unbearable tenderness, these stories ask the question no proverb has ever answered: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhen the lie is the only thing holding everything together, is it still wrong to tell it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Masobe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53031096844569,"sku":null,"price":14000.0,"currency_code":"NGN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/7737\/1673\/files\/TheLiesWeTell.png?v=1787237047","url":"https:\/\/shopbellabooks.com\/products\/the-lies-we-tell","provider":"Bellabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}