Liars -- Sarah Manguso, Hardcover

A searing 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 Arguments

"Painful and brilliant--I loved it."--Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or

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.

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.

Author: Sarah Manguso
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: 07/23/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9780593241257

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2024 pg. 4
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2024

About the Author
Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including the novel Very Cold People, a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Manguso is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. She lives in Los Angeles.