How to survive childhood in a dysfunctional family. The Liars Club shows that even writing memoirs is a great art | Orientation

The basic lesson it brings Liars Club Mary Karr, it’s like: you can’t make money with poetry. The American woman of letters is thus another in a long line of poets who reach us only because they were able to leave poetry (at least temporarily). The transition to another genre – here to memoirs – meant broad success.

So Liars Club it fulfilled its original purpose, it certainly earned the poetess’s car. Mary Karr decided not to hide anything. In the beginning of the book, she points out to her sister: “The need for money is the most noble reason in our family, but Lecia would support any project I would like to embark on.” (‘Going to kill some people? Fine, a lot of shit deserves to die.’)”