It's 1974 in suburban Maryland, and 13-year-old Martie Wheeler is consumed by anxiety. Her father has just dropped dead from a heart attack, two girls have disappeared from the local mall, and President Nixon has turned out to be a liar. With no outlet for expressing her feelings, Martie's teenage angst is magnified by the sense of deceit hovering over both the country and her home.   While trying to cope with a hasty move to Milwaukee, Martie learns of a dark family secret that threatens to upend her world altogether. The Lies We Tell captures the wonder and confusion of adolescence in the 1970s while growing up in a household rocked by lies.