ONLY THE LIE IS TRUE

ONLY THE LIE IS TRUE is the harrowing story of an immigrant and her struggle to reach freedom across the Mediterranean, far from the oppression and violence of her home country, Nigeria. Moreover, the protagonist of this first novel, Nour, is in transition from male to female, one of many queer and transgendered people fleeing from certain imprisonment, torture, and possibly death from a society where to claim such an identity is forbidden and illegal. This novel, based on a true story of a transgender immigrant, provides the chilling detail the realities of the immigrant detention camps, the smugglers and their compatriots who prey on the naivete of the refugees, and the complex network of trust and betrayal that makes up the world of the camp operations. Nour is a fiery protagonist who must first join forces with the smuggling operation in order to obtain freedom, all while maintaining her tenuous disguise as a man.