num_pages: 320
description: In this powerfully funny, razor's edge tale of a fractured girlhood, prize-winning poet and critic Mary Karr conjures up the terrors and joys of growing up in a swampy East Texas refinery town, at the epicenter of a family full of passionate, volatie attachments. In a voice stipped of self-pity, in language reinvented with a raw authenticity and brilliant energy, Karr shows readers a "terrific family of liars and drunks . . . redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth".
language: English
title: The Liars' Club
titlecomplete: The Liars' Club
genres: Book Club, Biography, Coming Of Age, Autobiography, Southern, Womens, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Adult, 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 Group