The Liars' Club
A Memoir
by Mary Karr
Recommended by Lena Dunham and Adam Savage
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Memoir, Autobiographies, and Most Recommended Books.
When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as 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 harddrinking daddy, a sister wh...
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