Book description
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all.
'An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust ' - Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace
'A white-hot dissection of the power…
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3 authors picked Liars as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Razor-sharp, juicy divorce story.
Biting and brutal, Liars is a portrait of a heterosexual marriage and the persistent difficulties of achieving equality under the patriarchy. Manguso explores how a self-avowed feminist could find herself stuck in an abusive relationship for over a decade—it’s infuriating and all too real. But what I especially love about Liars is how it exposes the sometimes-silent epidemic of domestic, emotional, and unpaid labor, and how gendered expectations can covertly (or not so covertly) operate within a relationship. Written in short bursts of prose that feel almost like diary entries, Liars is an intimate and emotionally compelling novel that explores…
An utterly biased, highly rageful, brilliant novel about marriage and motherhood. I could not put it down. It's amazing
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