A review by mlsweeten
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Books like this actually do give me hope that kids with difficult childhoods can grow up to be successful adults with normal lives. A few parts of this book made me feel nostalgic for my own childhood. Like Mary, I lived in Colorado when I was about 10 and my brother was 12. Being generation x kids, we’d run all over and explore caves and play in the woods with no adult supervision, and we survived. I also used green stamps from the grocery store to buy presents for my family. Mary seemed like a fun and daring kid. Other parts of this book are simply tragic. Horrible what some kids have to endure. What made this memoir different than others that are similar was the humor that she included. While her parents were far from ideal, she handled the adventures pretty well and obviously had love for her family. Well, maybe not her grandma…