The Liar's Club
Mary Karr • 1995
Devastation Rating
abuse memoir Texas family
Our Take
Karr wrote about her East Texas childhood — the drinking, the madness, the violence — with a precision that launched the modern memoir. Her mother tried to kill her. Her father was a roughneck who told beautiful lies. The love and the damage are inseparable.
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