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Dreamers often lie / Jacqueline West.

by West, Jacqueline, 1979-

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Dial Books, 2016.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Fiction.

Teenage girls -- Fiction.

Brain damage -- Fiction.

Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction

College and school drama -- Fiction.

Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction.

9780803738638 (hc.)

353 p. ; 22 cm.

"Jaye wakes up from a skiiing accident with a fractured skull, a blinding headache, and her grip on reality sliding into delusion. Determined to get back to her starring role in the school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jaye lies to her sister, her mom, her doctors. She's fine, she says. She's fine. If anyone knew the truth—that hallucinations of Shakespeare and his characters have followed her from her hospital bed to the high school halls—it would all be over. She's almost managing to pull off the act when Romeo shows up in her anatomy class. And it turns out that he's 100 percent real. Suddenly Jaye has to choose between lying to everyone else and lying to herself. Troubled by this magnetic boy, a long-lost friend turned recent love interest, and the darkest parts of her family's past, Jaye's life tangles with Shakespeare's most famous plays until she can't tell where the truth ends and pretending begins. Soon, secret meetings and dizzying first kisses give way to more dangerous things. How much is real, how much is in Jaye's head, and how much does it matter as she flies toward a fate over which she seems to have no control?"--From publisher.

Grades: 8-up. SLJ.

Psychological fiction.

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