Liars (Hardback)

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 out - The New York Times

Painful and brilliant—I loved it - Elif 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 book - Claire 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 years - Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

I was spellbound, entranced by Sarah Manguso’s deceptively simple but fathoms-deep storytelling. There’s an incredible force that underlies this work, propulsive and wild and a little bit scary - Emily Gould, author of Friendship and Perfect Tunes

An exquisitely creepy book about one of our most horrifying institutions: marriage. I quickly devoured it and loved it - Myriam Gurba, author of Creep

Intimate and fierce, Liars is a portrait of a marriage corroded by creative envy and a searing examination of the cost of literary ambition - Isabel Kaplan

Liars is a crime novel. Except the crime is heterosexual marriage. It’s a whodunit and the villain is the patriarchy. . . . A brilliantly paced, gripping novel of love and betrayal - Lyz Lenz, author of This American Ex-Wife

I couldn't put it down. An astounding feat . . . spanning a fourteen-year marriage with concision and specificity. So many women will connect with this book. It sliced all the way through me - Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust — the resentments and disappointments that can rot the heart - Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace

Brilliant: compelling, implicating, distressing and enraging - Times Literary Supplement