Hey, it's NPR's book of the day. I'm Andrew Limbaung. Remember that reality TV show from a while

back called Catfish? It was about people who pretended to be someone they weren't while dating online.

I've seen a decent amount of it, and the person catfishing was often portrayed as a creep or a loser.

But I imagine they all had full, rich, complicated

lives that led to their catfishing ways. In Rosie's story's novel, Dandelion is dead. Our main

character is on the dating apps, pretending to be someone she isn't, that someone is her dead

sister. And in this interview with Empire's Wanda

Summers, story talks about writing a book with no clear good guys or bad guys where

everything is messy and nobody is perfect because that's just how life is. More after the

break. Valentine's Day is coming up,

and the perfect gift for the NPR lover in your life is waiting at the NPR shop.

From cozy sweaters and mugs made for slow mornings

to our tiny desk hoodie,

there's something for every NPR fan.

Each purchase supports public media

and the journalism you love.

Find something meaningful at shop nvr.org.

Can something good come from a foundation built on a lie? That is the question at the heart of a

new novel from British writer Rosie Story. I was really thinking about how we all lie in tiny

ways every day, you know, on dating apps, for example.

We might be lying about presenting ourselves in a certain way.

But what if the specific lie on a dating app is that the person you're pretending to be is actually dead?

...