Darkly funny and brutally frank, it offers a remarkable portrait of a down and out existence cobbled together across the country, from musicians' crashpads around Boston to a painful moment of reckoning in the scorched Wonder Valley desert of California. As LIAR twists and turns through Roberge's life, it turns the familiar story of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll on its head. But the process of trying to remember his past only exposes just how fragile the stories that lay at the heart of our self-conception really are. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he sets out to (somewhat faithfully) record the most formative moments of his life. When Rob Roberge learns that he's likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming a walking shadow.
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