4 on& 160;The New York Times’ list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years The& 160;New York Times& 160;bestselling hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah. com calls the best memoir of a generation “Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet’s ear. ” —Oprah. com The Liars’ Club& 160;took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger’s—a hard-drinking daddy a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as “funny lively and un-put-downable” (USA Today)& 160;today as it ever was. Language: English