For its twentieth anniversary, a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition of Mary Karrs pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, with a new foreword by Lena Dunham
When it was first published twenty years ago, 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. Karrs comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salingersa 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. Now in a stunning Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lena Dunhama creative game changer in her own rightthis unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as funny, lively, and un-put-downable (USA Today) today as it ever was.
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