âWickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.â âOprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karrâs hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.
The Liarsâ 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. Karrâs comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salingerâsâa 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 âfunny, lively, and un-put-downableâ (USA Today) today as it ever was.
âWickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.â âOprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karrâs hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.
The Liarsâ 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. Karrâs comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salingerâsâa 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 âfunny, lively, and un-put-downableâ (USA Today) today as it ever was.