Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including the novel Very Cold People, a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Manguso is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. She lives in Los Angeles.

"Eviscerating."--The New York Times

"A tour de force . . . Liars makes an old story fresh."--NPR

"Makes stirring observations about marriage and identity."--Time

"Is divorce the new marriage plot? . . . [Liars] pulses with a rare kind of anger, making it a compulsive, unforgettable read. Love stories, it seems, are out. Divorce as liberation? Very much in."--Vogue

"[Manguso] is at the top of her game."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A bracing story of a woman on the verge."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"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

"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

"An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust."--Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace

"I couldn't put it down. 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 . . . This might be the most honest marriage novel I have ever read. 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

"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

Publisher: Hogarth Press

Pub date: 2025-05-13

Length: 272 pages