Darkly comic and brutally frank, it offers a remarkable portrait of a down-and-out existence scattered across the country, from musicians’ crashpads around Boston, to seedy bars in Florida popular with sideshow freaks, to a painful moment of reckoning in the scorched Wonder Valley desert of California. But the process of trying to remember his past only exposes just how fragile are the stories that lie at the heart of who we think we are.Īs Liar twists and turns through Roberge’s life, it turns the familiar story of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll on its head.
In an effort to preserve his identity (for what is identity if not memories?), Roberge records the most formative moments of his life-ranging from the brutal murder of his childhood girlfriend, to a diagnosis of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, to singing and playing guitar with his band the Urinals as an opening act for famed indie band Yo La Tengo at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Liar is Roberge’s desperate attempt to document his life when faced with the prospect of forgetting it after years of hard living and too frequent concussions suffered during substance-induced blackouts. Indie darling and novelist Rob Roberge makes his major-house debut with Liar : A Memoir, an intense, darkly funny book of addiction and mental illness, relapse, recovery, and the nature of memory.
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