Liars by Sarah Manguso
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hmmm. So this book was pitched as “searing” but, to me, it read like a tale as old as time. Woman and man are both flourishing. They get married, have a family, woman makes sacrifices and becomes small and not flourishing in the process. Man continues to make more money but the woman is actually more well-known and famous and then leaves woman for another woman. I mean what part of this is surprising at this point? Doesn’t this happen again and again?
I feel like from the outside these stories might seem crazy and so obvious, but from the inside it’s a lot more common than it seems. And maybe that’s the point here? I liked it but I also wasn’t wow’ed by it like many seem to have.
Leave a Reply