The Liars' Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the
memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of
the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us
characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's--a
hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age
twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to
destroy them all. This book is an unsentimental and profoundly moving
account of an apocalyptic childhood.