Liars A Novel

Sarah Manguso

eBook - 2024

An “eviscerating” (The New York Times) novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from the author of Very Cold People and 300 ArgumentsFINALIST FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, Lit Hub, Chicago Public Library“Is divorce the new marriage plot? . . . [Liars] pulses with a rare kind of anger, making it a compulsive, unforgettable read. Love stories, it seems, are out. Divorce as liberation? Very much in.”—Vogue“A tour de force . . . Liars makes an old story fresh.”—NPR“A bracing story of a woman on the verge.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A nucle...ar family can destroy a woman artist. I’d always known that. But I’d never... more