Before We Were Innocent Summary
Ella Berman

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Before We Were Innocent Overview

Before We Were Innocent is a 2023 work of contemporary fiction by Ella Berman. It centers around the development of and the unraveling of the friendship of three privileged girls, Evangeline, Joni, and Bess. It is based primarily in California and Greece and flips between the years 2008 and 2018. While the book centers around two deaths and two murder investigations, it is primarily a novel about friendship and honesty. It centers around themes such as Ruminiations of What Might Have Been, The Ways People Are Tied to the Past, the ways that Perception Does Not Always Match Reality, The Degree to Which Perception Has Power, and The Ways in Which Priviledge Is Not Always Easy to Define.

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