The Liars’ Club

The Liars' Club is a memoir written by Mary Karr. The novel, published by Viking Adult in 1995, chronicles the narrative of Karr's boyhood in a tiny industrial town in Southeast Texas in the 1960s. When they weren't working at the nearby oil refinery or chemical factory, her father and his buddies would get together to drink and tell stories.

This explosive memoir, describing the author's boyhood in the 1960s in a tiny industrial town in Southeast Texas, was released in 1995 and was a catalyst for the current memoir boom. The book is deserving of its fame. You might almost say of Mary Karr's nimble language what she says of herself at the age of seven: "I was small-boned and scrawny, but more than capable of making up for it with sheer meanness".

Karr was a serious score settler when she was a child, eager to bite everyone who had offended her or climb a tree with a BB pistol to take aim at a whole family. Her mother, who "imagined herself as a bohemian Scarlett O'Hara", had a wild side. She had seven marriages and suffered from psychotic episodes. Her father was an oil refinery worker, a brawling yet quiet guy who came to life while telling tall stories, usually in the backroom of a bait store with a group of men known as "The Liars' Club". This is one of the best books ever written about growing up in America. Karr evokes the contours of her preadolescent mind — the fears, fights and petty jealousies — with extraordinary and often comic vividness. This memoir, packed with eccentrics, is beautifully eccentric in its own right.

Detailed information:

Author: Mary Karr
Language: English
Genre: Memoir

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14241