Description
Allie Feldman, a talented journalist and a self-described rebel and social activist, finds herself adrift and ostracized by family and friends after disrupting her Northwestern University commencement ceremonies. She is subsequently spurned by her sponsor, the Chicago Tribune. Her mother loses her job at a Chicago social service agency because of Allie’s leading role in the tumultuous protest. The consequences of her shocking behavior wound her. But how serious is the wound? Is she capable of making a life-altering course correction, or will she revert to her penchant for self-destructive behavior regardless of the consequences for herself and others?
The Lie
This gripping novel traces Allie’s journey and her battle which pits her habitual selfindulgence against her rare self-restraint. This journey is made infinitely more difficult by the lie, which pushes Allie to extreme measures and does incalculable damage to family, her lover, and her career. Can she find a path to redemption and love, or will she and others continue to suffer the pain and anguish which her actions cause?
About the Author
A fashion retailing legend, MARTIN SNEIDER has been a leader in the shoe and clothing industries for more than five decades and has served as a multi-award-winning adjunct professor of retailing at the Olin School of Business at Washington University since 1992. At the Olin School of Business, Martin created and taught a course devoted to luxury goods merchandising and marketing that included trips with students to Milan, Paris, and London to visit the showrooms of Armani, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Burberry, and Cartier. A fourth-generation retailer, Martin started as a shoe salesman and rose to president, co-CEO, and chief merchant of one of the nation’s largest fashion shoe and apparel specialty chains. He served on the Alumni Board of Directors of Harvard Business School, is a past chairman of St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and received the Distinguished Alumni award from Washington University. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Toast, How a Leading Retailer Went From Toast of the Town to Just Plain Toast, a nonfiction book on the shoe industry. He is also author of Shelf Life and Amy Unbound, the first two novels of a projected five-novel series about fashion, fame, and family. Martin has two children and five granddaughters and lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and New York City.
