#4 onThe New York Times list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

TheNew York Timesbestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation

Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poets ear. Oprah.com

The Liars Clubtook 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.

This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as funny, lively, and un-put-downable (USA Today)today as it ever