Padma Lakshmi is the host of
Top Chef, Bravo's long-running TV series. Her new memoir is
Love, Loss, and What We Ate. One of
her six favorite books, as shared at
The Week magazine:
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
If any memoirist in this country tells you they haven't been influenced by The Liars' Club, they are either lying or uninformed. The genius of Karr's memoir is that it's really not about her, but about her parents, told with love and innocence while fearlessly illustrating their faults.
Read about
another entry on the list.
The Liars’ Club is among
René Steinke’s top six Texas books that aren't about cowboys,
Julie Buntin's top twelve memoirs by women that will get you through anything,
Calvin Trillin's five favorite memoirs, and
Rebecca Ford's favorite five non-fiction books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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