![]() ![]() Roberge plumbs the mental constructions, obfuscations, omissions, exaggerations, and half-truths he has told himself and others, beginning, in the book, in second grade (in 1972), and ending in 2013, when, undone by his own lack of integrity, he writes of himself, “you walk into a room and the first thing you say is ‘I’m sorry.’” In Liar, a new memoir by Rob Roberge, the author chooses instead to untangle the lie. ![]() But there’s an argument to be made that this is a false construction - that to author a personal story in this way is to impose a distorting narrative arc over a life, and thus, some would say, to deceive. MARKET-DRIVEN MEMOIR insists on redemption - on some version of a hero’s journey in three acts: the beginning, the middle, the end. ![]()
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