"Past and present collide in this propulsive, one-of-a-kind meditation on truth and conspiracy ... Breathtaking.”
—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, To Name the Bigger Lie is a memoir about conspiracy and false accusation -- based on a viral New York Times essay -- centering on a sexual harassment investigation against Sarah's wife concocted by a faraway professional rival.

Sarah Viren is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and author of the essay collection, Mine, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is also the author of To Name the Bigger Lie, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, she teaches in the creative writing program at Arizona State University.