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Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet, uses her uncommon perception, precision, and piercing language to create a powerful, disturbing, funny, and totally entrancing memoir, The Liar's Club, which she reads here. Karr grew up in a rough East Texas town with an odd, inscrutable (to put it mildly) mother who drank prodigiously, read Camus, painted, rarely served a hot meal, and had a wholly secret past. Karr has the rare ability to observe her childhood through a child's eyes, struggling to figure out her parents while figuring out who she is herself--complicated enough in an ordinary family, dazzlingly disconcerting in this one.
Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. She can be reached at sukey_howard@bookpage.com.
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