num_pages: 320
description: Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. In this funny, devastating, haunting memoir and with a raw and often painful honesty, she looks back at life with a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over into psychosis, and a hard-drinking, fist-swinging father who liked nothing better than to spin tales with his cronies at the Liars' Club.
language: English
title: The Liars' Club
titlecomplete: The Liars' Club
genres: Coming Of Age, Book Club, Biography, Womens, Adult, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Southern, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 67307
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Penguin Books