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BEAUTIFUL LIES
By Lisa Unger
Shaye Areheart Books, $23, 374 pp
Reviewed by COLETTE BANCROFT
When Ridley Jones steps out of the front door of her East Village apartment building, notices a toddler walking into the path of a van and, on the spur of the moment, dives across the street and rescues the boy, a newspaper photographer having a lucky day captures the moment with his camera.
Ridley, a freelance journalist, isn't surprised to find herself having 15 minutes of fame, recognized on the street by beaming strangers.
But one person recognizes her in a way she never expected. Ridley, who grew up the beloved, privileged child of a doctor and his wife, gets an...