The Liar's Club

Poet Mary Karr’s The Liar’s Club, a memoir of growing up in a ’60s Texan refinery town, is nothing short of superb. Raised by an alcoholic Gulf Oil union man and a failed artist, Karr resolves her love for her dysfunctional parents with her tragicomic take on them, quarrying from a past a less courageous author might have played for sympathy. A