Pretending is lying is an autobiographical masterpiece created over twelve years. Time plays a key role in this book where stylistic and narrative experimentations merge into the unfolding narrative.

In a series of dazzling fragments – skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black and white – Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; and with her parents. (NYRB)
The result is an unnerving comedy of paternal dysfunction, an achingly ambivalent love story (with asides on Thomas Pynchon and the Beach Boys), and a searing account of childhood trauma –a dizzying, unforgettable view of a life in progress and a tour de force of the art of comics.