Liar: A Memoir - by Rob Roberge (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>When Rob Roberge learns that he's likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming a walking shadow. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he sets out to record the most formative moments of his life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. When Rob Roberge learns that he's likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming a walking shadow. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he sets out to (somewhat faithfully) record the most formative moments of his life. But the process of trying to remember his past only exposes just how fragile the stories that lay at the heart of our self-conception really are. As LIAR twists and turns through Roberge's life, it turns the familiar story of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll on its head. Darkly funny and brutally frank, it offers a remarkable portrait of a down and out existence cobbled together across the country, from musicians' crashpads around Boston to a painful moment of reckoning in the scorched Wonder Valley desert of California. As Roberge struggles to keep addiction and mental illness from destroying the good life he has built in his better moments, he is forced to acknowledge the increasingly blurred line between the lies we tell others and the lies we tell ourselves.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><strong>"In writing that manages to be beautiful and desperate, devastating and (occasionally) hysterical, Roberge engages the reader in his own ticking-clock struggle to get down the most unconfide-able memories of his life"--Jerry Stahl, author of <em>Permanent Midnight </em></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>"It would be hard to imagine a less reliable narrator for this disjointed memoir, but the shaky perspective adds to the emotional power and unflinching honesty."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>"I've never read a book more intimately devoted to articulating how tenuous our hold on identity is. Identity is made, unmade, remade by chasing memory, and memory is a series of emotional intensities we barely survive. And yet, mercifully and sporadically, love comes. Read this memoir. Because life is what happens between truth and the fictions we make to withstand it." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of <em>The Chronology of Water</em></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>"Through Roberge's disclosure of himself as a liar, we discover how stories and bodies hold literal and metaphoric resonance; how truth is conjured from contradictory tellings; how our minds reshape history to suit our ability to remember. We all make shit up to survive. <em>Liar</em> does so brilliantly." --Sonya Lea, <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em></strong></p><p> </p><br>
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