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Sarah Manguso is a published author.

She is known for her books Liars, as well as Very Cold People. Liars was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Carol Shields Prize. The novel Very Cold People made the longlist for the Wingate Literary Prize, as well as the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

Other books that she has written include nonfiction, poetry collections, and a story collection. She is known for her philosophy work Questions Without Answers. It was written in collaboration with hundreds of children and was illustrated by Liana Finck.

Manguso has been recognized thanks to an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award. She also has received a Hodder Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Her works and writing have been translated into over a dozen languages.

Today, she resides in Los Angeles after growing up in Massachusetts.

Very Cold People is a 2022 book by Sarah Manguso. If you have been on the lookout for a unique book that you will definitely want to read, check out this story and see what you think.

No one’s watching main character Ruth, but that doesn’t mean the same is true if you reverse things. She is watching everyone and everything. She waits, spending her time growing up in an affluent New England township. She is constantly on the outer edge of popularity. While she doesn’t necessarily understand what she’s seeing, she is recording it all the time as her time of being an awkward youth unfurls under awkward parenting.

Ruth’s parents ignore their daughter, alternating between mocking her and undermining her. They seem damaged, then inadequate, and finally as monsters. Constantly through this time, the Future is coming for them. It’s coming steadily and may result in a fatal end for many of them. All the while, the fog of the Past and the abuses it put on keeps gathering, swirling, settling, and clearing.

As the reader sees the future come on, the reader is frozen and transfixed by adults failing to be adults as well as Ruth moving on towards being an adult of her own making. Read this book to absorb every word!

Liars is a 2024 book written by Sarah Manguso. This is a book about someone who is a mother, wife, and an artist, and goes into how marriage can often make liars of us all. If you love a good dramatic story then you are going to love this novel that The New York Times called ‘eviscerating’ and NPR named as a best book of the year (as did Town & Country, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Public Library, and Lit Hub).

A nuclear family is capable of destroying a female artist. That’s something that Jane has always known. The thing that she did not understand was how easy it was for her to fall into one regardless.

Jane wants to be a writer. When she meets John Bridges, a film maker, it turns out that they are after the same things. They want to be in love, they want to live a creative life full of success, and they want to be happy. The two decide to get married and once they do, Jane thinks that at last she has found all that she was looking for. This also includes all the joys and the work that comes with motherhood.

It is not too long until Jane discovers that she has been completely subsumed by John’s whims, ambitions, and ego. She has somehow turned into a wife. Her career starts doing very well but at the same time that’s doing better, her marriage is getting worse.

Throughout all that comes with family life, Jane is doing her best to try and keep everything together. Then John ends up leaving her. This is an incredible book that follows along with a marriage as it crashes to the ground. Will Jane be able to come up out of it and rise from the ashes? Read this story from Sarah Manguso to find out!