The Liars' ClubBy: Mary Karr Youll want to forget it and wont be able to Zadie Smith The essential American story The Washington Post My father comes into focus for me on a Liars Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I cant but write it in the present tense. Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. In this funny, devastating,