Liars

From the acclaimed author of Very Cold People and 300 Arguments. A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I’d always known that. But I’d never suspected how easily I’d fall into one anyway. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful creative life and to be happy. When they finally marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including the joy of motherhood when their child is born. But it’s not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John’s ambitions, whims and ego; in short, she becomes a wife. As Jane’s career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Throughout five house moves, two failed businesses and a steady draining of the family finances, Jane tries to hold it all together. That is, until John leaves her. Combining the intensity of Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment and the pithy wisdom of Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation, Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes.