Summary of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I remember the feeling of fear I had when the doctor pulled my gown up to check for injuries. I was seven at the time, and had no idea what had happened, but I knew something was very wrong.
#2 I was taken away by the sherriff, and I don’t remember talking to Dr. Boudreaux. I was eventually led away by the sheriff, holding Lecia, who had pretended to be asleep.
#3 I was sent to my aunt and uncle’s house, as my parents were Nervous and couldn’t take me with them. I was in my twenties when Mr. Thibideaux killed his family. I liked to call myself a poet, but no one ever asked me what I was reading.
#4 I would rather eat a bug than sleep on that hard pallet at the Smothergills’ house. The Smothergills had six kids, and their rules about who ate what and when were notorious.

Sujets

• United States
• Southwest

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 04 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669350019
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Mary Karr's The Liars Club
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I remember the feeling of fear I had when the doctor pulled my gown up to check for injuries. I was seven at the time, and had no idea what had happened, but I knew something was very wrong.

#2

I was taken away by the sherriff, and I don’t remember talking to Dr. Boudreaux. I was eventually led away by the sheriff, holding Lecia, who had pretended to be asleep.

#3

I was sent to my aunt and uncle’s house, as my parents were Nervous and couldn’t take me with them. I was in my twenties when Mr. Thibideaux killed his family. I liked to call myself a poet, but no one ever asked me what I was reading.

#4

I would rather eat a bug than sleep on that hard pallet at the Smothergills’ house. The Smothergills had six kids, and their rules about who ate what and when were notorious.

#5

The night of the incident, I did not understand the consequences of what had happened, but I did understand that things in my house were not right. I began to believe that I was not right, or that my survival in the world depended on my vigilance against various forms of not-rightness.

#6

When my mother threw her expensive dresses, books, and hatboxes into the back of an old Ford in 1950, she was heading for her mother’s cotton farm about five hundred miles west. She got a tire blowout just outside of Leechfield. My father, a union apprentice stillman at Gulf Oil, happened to be working that night.

#7

My parents’ marriage was not a happy one. After my father chased my mother around like a duck after a june bug, she finally agreed to marry him.

#8

Mother married Daddy in part because she was scared. She had a lot of husbands, and she tried to keep them a secret. She had lost some things along the way, and losing things scared her.

#9

The Liars’ Club met regularly at the Legion to exchange gift bottles of Jack Daniel’s. I never saw any planning, and they never called each other. They just seemed to meander together, seemingly by instinct, to a given place and hour that had magically planted itself in their collective noggins.

#10

I once went to a Legion meeting in which a veteran told a story about how he had frozen to death in the wintertime while riding the rails. He said that the wind that blew through the train car cracks was like a straight razor, and he would have frozen to death without a cow he had befriended to keep him warm.

#11

Daddy told stories of how he’d come home from the logging camp, and how his father would greet him with, You get the coffee. Mother wanted desperately to get pregnant, and Daddy was a fool for kids.

#12

The letters from my father are very interesting, as he would write about his experiences in the army, and even though he was very careful with his weapons, he would still find a bullet in the firing chamber.

#13

I remember my grandfather having a huge trunk that held photos of him and his family when he was a boy. I loved looking at the photos, and I especially enjoyed discovering receipts from every bill he ever paid.

#14

Scabs were the cornerstones of Daddy’s favorite lecture. He would tell me stories about crossing a picket line, and how it would affect his family. I would always believe him, even when he told me stories about how old Booger got the job.

#15

Mother had a difficult childhood, but she was always interested in the weather. She loved tornadoes, and when she heard a tornado was approaching, she would open the windows and doors to let them pass.

#16

My mother’s story is one of the few that I remember. She was stuffed in a bright red coat and propped out on the front porch on a freezing January afternoon. She saw the entire sky through a gray curtain. She didn’t feel like she was going to die, only that a wooziness made her want to lie down.

#17

The sight of a dark cloud racing towards you is a common occurrence in West Texas. It can be a tornado, but more often than not, it is a cloud of locusts.

#18

My grandmother was a very tough woman, and she did not sugarcoat her opinion of my father. She said something about my mother coming to her senses, then immediately set us all to work putting up an evil sweet relish called chowchow.

#19

My grandmother had taught me to tat lace by the time I was five, but I had never been able to tie a shoe bow. When we visited my mother’s cousin Dotty, her husband Fermin ran a cotton gin in Roundup, Texas.

#20

Grandma told me that her sister had made a good marriage, and that she had been rented out to a sharecropper as a child. I was shocked to see her delicate looking sisters in her photo in the parlor, looking like they could barely support themselves.

#21

I heard from Robert only a few times after he sent me that birthday card from Vietnam. He died in a war zone two years later.

#22

The town of Leechfield, where Mother lived, was a manufacturing site for Agent Orange, a chemical used in the Vietnam War. I remember the smell of the town, which was like a wicked fart in a close room.

#23

Leechfield is a small town in Texas that is known for its nastiness.

#24

After his parents got married, Lee Gleason’s wife, Annie, stopped talking to him. She saddled up an old mule and rode into Anhuac, Texas, to buy a fifty-pound sack of sugar. She then rode back and cut the bag open, spilling the sugar onto the ground.

#25

I was 15 when I finally decided to run away from home. I had always been told that if I got work, I could write. However, it was impossible for me to run away in the sense other American teenagers did.

#26

I remember my parents’ fights, which sometimes became violent. I would hide under the blue cotton quilt with Lecia, who would do parodies of their fights.