The Liars' Club
A Memoir
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4.6 • 19 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.
The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger’s—a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as “funny, lively, and un-put-downable” (USA Today) today as it ever was.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Reading poet Mary Karr’s memoir about her childhood in east Texas is a visceral experience: It’s lush, full of insight, and dark. Karr’s family stuck out in their churchgoing town: Her alcoholic parents had terrifying fights, and her mother—who considered herself a bohemian artist—often teetered on the edge of insanity. Karr herself was a tough little girl who’d curse out grown men and shoot BBs at the family next door. Her candid and bitingly funny account of those chaotic years makes it feel like she’s looking back at her childhood through a rearview mirror. She’s happy to be out of that phase of her life, but glad that it somehow got her where she is today.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Poet Karr's NBCC nominated memoir of her East Texas childhood is a blackly comic tale of a family prone to alcoholism, violence and insanity.
Customer Reviews
Page turner, wonderfully written
I have read hundreds of memoirs and this is one of my favourites. It’s not just a telling of tale but her story, written and structured to perfectly capture places, events, and people, to keep you page turning in the way a highly skilled fiction writer would.
I Would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially women, even if they aren’t fans of memoir.