This summer they've been joined by Penny's friend Erin and three college- bound boys invited by Yardley. In terms of diversity, the main cast is White, one character is gay, and two are bisexual.įAMILY OF LIARS is set in the summer of 1987, as teen sisters Carrie, Penny, and Bess Sinclair, along with their cousins Yardley and Tomkin, return to spend another summer on their family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Characters regularly use strong language ('f-k,' 'a-hole,' 'bastard'), and there's lots of drinking and getting drunk by both teens and adults. A sexual encounter between two teens is presented as consensual but the girl remembers she had 'codeine and Jim Beam running though my system.' Teen boys joke about their 'weenies' and one of them 'boning' a girl. A rape is interrupted and a teen is brutally murdered. The summer local police assumed educated girls from a 'good family' would always tell the truth. The summer she was hooked on a prescription painkiller and the summer a murder was covered up. It was the summer she had her first kiss. He wants Carrie to tell him about 'the absolute worst thing you ever did, back then.' So she tells him what happened the summer of 1987, when a 17-year-old Carrie returned with the extended Sinclair family to their private island off Martha's Vineyard. Lockhart's We Are Liars.The story begins with an adult Caroline 'Carrie' Sinclair talking with the ghost of her dead son, Johnny. Parents need to know that Family of Liars is the prequel to E. There's a brief mention of teens smoking cigarettes.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.

Teen characters regularly drink and get drunk, sometimes with adults present. Carrie knows she has a problem and that her drug-taking is affecting her ability to make good choices. The main character, Carrie, becomes addicted to codeine after surgery on her jaw, and her doctors and even her school nurse have kept her supplied.

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