Her harrowing childhood is brought to Technicolor life in her memoir The Liars’ Club. A dazzling bestseller, The Liars’ Club was selected one of the best books of 1995 by Time Magazine, The New Yorker Karr manages to tell her story with love, wicked humor, clarity, and a complete lack of self pity. With its pathos and color Karr has written what she would call a “white-trash” Angela’s Ashes making her one of America’s most loved memoirists.