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Liars

An addictive and unflinching story about marriage and betrayal

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Liars

Yazan: Sarah Manguso
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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 imbalances in a marriage, and as gripping as you want fiction to be.' – Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity

A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I’d always known that. But I’d never suspected how easily I’d fall into one anyway.

When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including – a few years later – all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it’s not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John’s ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.

As Jane’s career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Throughout the upheavals of family life, Jane tries to hold it all together. That is, until John leaves her.

Sarah Manguso's Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes.

'Painful and brilliant – I loved it' – Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or

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Liars is an unflagging and acridly funny assault on that story [of a happy marriage], but also a formally canny study of how such tales get told — and how fragile our replacements may turn out
Painful and brilliant—I loved it (Elif Batuman, author The Idiot and Either/Or)
A triumph and a revelation . . . the most honest marriage novel I have ever read. Sarah Manguso’s writing is furious, elegant, bitter, tender, frightening, and deeply funny. I loved this book (Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma)
I read Liars in one breathless, refuse-to-be-interrupted sitting. I was walloped on every page — by the painful familiarity of the story, by the all-at-onceness of the life described in these pages, by the brilliance of Manguso’s storytelling . . . I’m going to be returning to — and learning from — this book for years (Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful)
I was spellbound, entranced by Sarah Manguso’s deceptively simple but fathoms-deep storytelling. There’s an incredible force that underlies this work, propulsive and wild and a little bit scary (Emily Gould, author of Friendship and Perfect Tunes)
An exquisitely creepy book about one of our most horrifying institutions: marriage. I quickly devoured it and loved it (Myriam Gurba, author of Creep)
Intimate and fierce, Liars is a portrait of a marriage corroded by creative envy and a searing examination of the cost of literary ambition (Isabel Kaplan)
Liars is a crime novel. Except the crime is heterosexual marriage. It’s a whodunit and the villain is the patriarchy. . . . A brilliantly paced, gripping novel of love and betrayal (Lyz Lenz, author of This American Ex-Wife)
I couldn't put it down. An astounding feat . . . spanning a fourteen-year marriage with concision and specificity. So many women will connect with this book. It sliced all the way through me (Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch)
An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust — the resentments and disappointments that can rot the heart (Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace)
Brilliant: compelling, implicating, distressing and enraging
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Its evocation of the oft seen position of women in marriage was masterly and a relief.

Searing vulnerability, clarion insights and emotional truths

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Very raw description of a bad marriage and how it sometimes feels like being a woman.

Poetic and brutal

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I appreciate the basis of the story and can relate with it. But what I found was the book was like a list of complaints and not a lot of accountability in the first two acts. And not much narrative. Literally, just series of lists: I got up early, packed a lunch for our child, even though I was sick, cleaned up the mess John made, called the utility company to pay the bill John forgot to pay, and then picked up our child from school, all while John enjoyed a day at the spa. I’m not quoting but it’s what the entire first 70% of the book felt like. Over and over and over. I got no insight from most of it and felt mostly annoyed with the narrator. If it were a memoir you’d say the narrator hadn’t done enough processing before writing her story.

That being said, after the big change in the marriage, the book became more enjoyable — epiphanies and accountability and some insightful truths and all that. Also there’s a great line in the early part. Something like: the cat vomited into its own food bowl. Who needs metaphors? Which I found brilliant. But otherwise, I was mostly very frustrated listening to this book, although it was well written in terms of craft.

Felt more like lists of grievances vs a story

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Makes you take a hard look at our lives and be honest about what we may have sacrificed and the subtlety with which we lose our sense of self to be the best mum and wife. Not a raging adventurous fiction book but the building and unravelling of a relationship which makes you reflect - hopefully positively and take away some reminder that this life is yours and for you to experience too!

Every women should read this

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I heard about this from Chump Lady podcast and blog, which will give you some indication of why this particularly spoke to me! Even though my own relationships were not as abusive, I still related to about 90% of the points made and felt this reflected my last 25 years of relationships with men. Such an enjoyable book, I heartily recommend for all to read, but know I would especially have appreciated it when I was going through a break up myself.

Devoured this. Accurate portrayal of a woman in a long term relationship with a man.

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