“Eviscerating.”—The New York Times
“A furious, propulsive meditation on wifehood, motherhood and artistic ambition.”—NPR
“Makes stirring observations about marriage and identity.”—Time
“Painful and beautifully wrought. . . Manguso is a poet-novelist who knows brevity can whittle the sharpest knife.”—Vulture
“Gorgeously written, eminently readable . . . Manguso’s latest is a story wholly and brilliantly told.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Liars seethes with rage. Manguso is a masterful sentence writer and a brutally honest surveyor of the disadvantages women endure.”—Los Angeles Times
“Devastating and clarifying . . . Liars will leave a puncture wound.”—The Rumpus
“Manguso [is] the kind of writer capable of walloping you with an insight when you least expect it.”—Romper
“Painful and brilliant—I loved it.”—Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or
“Powerful . . . 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, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace
“I couldn’t put it down. An astounding feat, spanning a fourteen-year marriage with concision and specificity . . . It sliced all the way through me. So many women will connect with this book.”—Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
“A triumph and a revelation . . . Despite its title, this might be 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
“A white-hot dissection of the power imbalances in a marriage, and as gripping as you want fiction to be. Any spouse that has ever argued about money, time, work and childcare should read it.”—Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and Just Like You
“I read Liars in one breathless, refuse-to-be-interrupted sitting. I was walloped on every page.”—Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“Shocking and captivating.”—Julia Phillips, author of Bear and Disappearing Earth
“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
“An exquisitely creepy book about one of our most horrifying institutions: marriage. I quickly devoured it and loved it.”—Myriam Gurba, author of Creep
“From the first page I was spellbound. This book deserves to be read and reread again to fully absorb its primal power and truth.”—Emily Gould, author of Friendship and Perfect Tunes
