Lie, No Lie by Chris Lynch Summary

They say everyone is a bit of this and that, and opposites add up to a whole. That's how it is with Pauly and the narrator; "we do a sort of inverse thing for each other: He provides me with the whoosh that makes the drag-ass parts of living more worth it, and I provide him with the vacuum of experience that allows him to still feel any whoosh at all" (p. 166). On Valentine's Day, Pauly suggests going to the gym, but on the way, he insists he does not know the guy in the back of his truck who eventually introduces himself as Leon. They leave Leon in the parking lot once they reach the fitness club, and in the locker room, the narrator is embarrassed when Pauly comments on another man's...