Liars

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 outThe New York Times

Painful and brilliant—I loved itElif 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 bookClaire 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 yearsMaggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful