The Liars' Club is a memoir by the American author Mary Karr. ― Mary Karr, quote from The Liars' Club, “The week the local paper carried a story about the boy’s incarceration and lobotomy in the state hospital at Rusk, the guys at the refinery pitched the kid’s daddy a party complete with balloons and noisemakers.” “If swallowed—” each of the cans said, then there was just a wordless scorch mark as warning. The Legion served as recompense. And it knows your name.” ― Mary Karr, quote from The Liars' Club, “A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. No one congratulated you for clocking out. The Liars’ Club raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. ― Mary Karr, quote from The Liars' Club, “The first day of school, we walked till we reached a stretch of black graffiti on the sidewalk. ― Mary Karr, quote from The Liars' Club, “After Mother got her picture, we all stood around the fire truck eating moon-shaped cookies dusted with powdered sugar that the mayor's wife had brought in some Tupperware. The revelations continue to the final page, with a misleading carelessness as seductive as any world-class liar’s.” (, “Bold, blunt, and cinematic… nothing short of superb.” (, “An astonishing memoir of a ferociously loving and dysfunctional family… Karr uses the rich cadence of the region and poetic images to shape her wrenching story.” (. At” typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. ― Mary Karr, quote from The Liars' Club, “It sometimes seems to me like we’re not supposed to notice that Shug’s colored, or that saying anything about it would be bad manners. So just when I’d started to believe that the terse chronology of Grandma’s cancer that I’d prattled off all my life held all the truth, some windowshade in the experience flew up to show me what suffering really is. We hope you’ll join us. I blame all of you, actually, for not telling me about her sooner. and to carry with us the author’s best ideas. interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. That's how you acquire the resolution for survival that the upcoming years are about to demand. ― Mary Karr, quote from The Liars' Club, “When the truth would be unbearable the mind often just blanks it out. It was stuff like that that'd break your heart about Leechfield, what Daddy meant when he said the town was too ugly not to love.” It’s not the old man with arthritic fingers you glimpsed trying to open one of those little black, click-open purses for soda change at the Coke machine. offer you some of the highlights. Never again will you lay a hand against yourself, not as long as there are plums to eat and somebody--anybody--who gives enough of a damn to haul them to you. Founded in 2018, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account.