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Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating thanks to kickass storytelling and a poets ear Oprahcom

The New York Times bestselling hilarious tale of Mary Karrs hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprahcom calls the best memoir of a generation

The Liars Clubtook the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level bringing about a dramatic revival of the form Karrs comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J D Salingersa harddrinking daddy a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve and an oftmarried mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as funny lively and unputdownable USA Todaytoday as it ever was