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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nYear of Publication:\u00a0<\/strong>2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n A summary from Goodreads: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us all, from the author of Very Cold People<\/em> and 300 Arguments.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPainful and brilliant\u2014I loved it.\u201d\u2014Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot<\/em> and Either\/Or<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I\u2019d always known that. But I\u2019d never suspected how easily I\u2019d fall into one anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including\u2014a few years later\u2014all the attendant joy and labor of motherhood. But it\u2019s not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John\u2019s ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Jane\u2019s career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Throughout the upheavals of family life, Jane tries to hold it all together. That is, until John leaves her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Combining the intensity of Elena Ferrante\u2019s Days of Abandonment<\/em> and the pithy wisdom of Jenny Offill\u2019s Dept of Speculation, Liars<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Goshen Public Library call number: <\/strong> F MANGUSO (BOOK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sarah Manguso Year of Publication:\u00a02024 A summary from Goodreads: A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us all, from the author of Very Cold People and 300 Arguments. \u201cPainful and brilliant\u2014I loved it.\u201d\u2014Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either\/Or A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}