Juliet Faithfull- Liar's Dice

JULIET FAITHFULL is a Spanish-British-American writer who grew up in Brazil. She was awarded a fellowship to the Novel Incubator program at Boston’s GrubStreet. Today we discuss her debut novel, Liar’s Dice, winner of the 2024 Irish Writers Centre’s Novel Fair as well as a semifinalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. Juliet is a graduate of Harvard University and Smith College School for Social Work, Liar’s Dice is far more than a historical fiction. It is an emotional story about identity, disability, immigration, family secrets, belonging, betrayal, and the invisible wounds children carry into adulthood. The story follows Dolores, a young Brazilian girl whose life is shattered after her twin sister’s illness tears their family apart, forcing her into a new country, a new language, and a new world where she struggles to find her voice. Through Dolores’ journey, the novel asks readers whether love can survive betrayal, whether literacy can become liberation, and whether the truth has the power to heal what silence has broken.