"For a certain group of twenty-something women, consumption of, and passion for, The Liars' Club is both a rite of passage and a mode of self-identification. . . . I am lucky I was eight when this book was published. I am lucky I grew up in a world where it colored people's reactions to personal stories, female stories. We all are. Because The Liars' Club is more than an account of a tattered childhood and one brave and brilliant woman's attempt to use it rather than deny it. It is an aggressive tap on the shoulder in a crowded room, a smiling funny face asking its readers: 'Wanna be friends?' " --Lena Dunham, from the Foreword
"The essential American story . . . A great pleasure to read." --The Washington Post Book World "Astonishing . . . one of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to come along in years . . . [Karr's] most powerful tool is her language, which she wields with the virtuosity of both a lyric poet and an earthy, down-home Texan. It's a wonderfully unsentimental vision." --The New York Times "This is what the memoir is supposed to be." --Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "This book is so good I thought about sending it out for a backup opinion. . . . It's like finding Beethoven in Hoboken. To have a poet's precision of language and a poet's insight into people applied to one of the roughest, toughest, ugliest places in America is an astonishing event." --Molly Ivins, The Nation "Overflows with sparkling wit and humor . . . Truth beats powerfully at the heart of this dazzling memoir." --San Francisco ChronicleThe New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation—now with a foreword by Lena Dunham in celebration of its twentieth anniversary.
“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com
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.
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