title: The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
author: Mary Karr
description: &ldquo;For a certain group of twenty-something women, consumption of, and passion for, <i>The Liars&rsquo; Club</i> is both a rite of passage and a mode of self-identification. . . . I am lucky I was eight when this book was published. I am lucky I grew up in a world where it colored people&rsquo;s reactions to personal stories, <i>female </i>stories. We all are. Because <i>The Liars&rsquo; Club</i> is more than an account of a tattered childhood and one brave and brilliant woman&rsquo;s attempt to use it rather than deny it. It is an aggressive tap on the shoulder in a crowded room, a smiling funny face asking its readers: &lsquo;Wanna be friends?&rsquo; &rdquo; &mdash;<b>Lena Dunham, from the Foreword</b><br><br>&ldquo;The essential American story . . . A great pleasure to read.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;<b><i>The Washington Post Book World</i></b><br><br> &ldquo;Astonishing . . . one of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to come along in years . . . [Karr&rsquo;s] most powerful tool is her language, which she wields with the virtuosity of both a lyric poet and an earthy, down-home Texan. It&rsquo;s a wonderfully unsentimental vision.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;<b><i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>&ldquo;This is what the memoir is supposed to be.&rdquo; &mdash;<b>Stephen King,&#160;<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br> &ldquo;This book is so good I thought about sending it out for a backup opinion. . . . It&rsquo;s like finding Beethoven in Hoboken. To have a poet&rsquo;s precision of language and a poet&rsquo;s insight into people applied to one of the roughest, toughest, ugliest places in America is an astonishing event.&rdquo; &mdash;<b>Molly Ivins, <i>The Nation</i></b><br><br>&ldquo;Overflows with sparkling wit and humor . . . Truth beats powerfully at the heart of this dazzling memoir.&rdquo; &mdash;<i><b>San Francisco Chronicle<br></b></i><br>&ldquo;Karr lovingly retells [her parents&rsquo;] best lies and drunken extravagances with an ear for bar-stool phraseology and a winking eye for image. The revelations continue to the final page, with a misleading carelessness as seductive as any world-class liar&rsquo;s.&rdquo; &mdash;<b><i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br>&ldquo;Karr has drawn black gold from the [Texan] mud.&rdquo; &mdash;<b><i>Texas Monthly</i></b><br><br>&ldquo;Karr&rsquo;s God-awful childhood has a calamitous appeal. The choice in the book is between howling misery and howling laughter, and the reader veers toward laughter. Karr has survived to write a drop-dead reply to the question, &lsquo;Ma, what was it like when you were a little girl?&rsquo; &rdquo;&#160;&mdash;<i><b>Time<br><br></b></i>&ldquo;Mary Karr is a phoenix. That she arose from any fire to create poetry says as much about poetry as it does about Mary Karr.&rdquo; &mdash;<b>Mary-Louise Parker on her favorite memoir, <i>The Liars&rsquo; Club, </i>in <i>Ladies&rsquo; Home Journal</i></b><i><b><br></b></i>
zlib_text: > I KNOW YOU LIED
  
  > AN ABSOLUTELY ADDICTIVE AND SHOCKING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
  
  > LESLEY SANDERSON
  
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  > > BOOKS BY LESLEY SANDERSON
  
  [ _ _The Birthday Weekend__](https://geni.us/B08JQF4T9Yendmatter2)
  
  [ _ _I Know You Lied__](https://geni.us/B086C6BF22endmatter2)
  
  [ _ _The Leaving Party__](https://geni.us/B0828ZT6B4endmatter2)
  
  [ _ _The Woman at 46 Heath Street__](http://geni.us/B07MRL53J1endmatter2)
  
  [ _ _The Orchid Girls__](http://geni.us/B07GGS6Q1Rendmatter2)
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Prologue_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _Chapter 13_
  
  >  _Chapter 14_
  
  >  _Chapter 15_
  
  >  _Chapter 16_
  
  >  _Chapter 17_
  
  >  _Chapter 18_
  
  >  _Chapter 19_
  
  >  _Chapter 20_
  
  >  _Chapter 21_
  
  >  _*_
  
  >  _Chapter 22_
  
  >  _Chapter 23_
  
  >  _Chapter 24_
  
  >  _*_
  
  >  _Chapter 25_
  
  >  _Chapter 2