'You have scars you lie about and scars you tell the truth about,' Roberge writes to himself. It would be hard to imagine a less reliable narrator for this disjointed memoir, but the shaky perspective adds to the emotional power and unflinching honesty. There is no family friend, no frozen dog. After years of hard living, addiction, and many concussions, rocker Rob Roberge found himself slowly losing his memories.

When Rob Roberge learns that hes likely to have. The story is merely an excuse to share factoids that satisfy his Titanic obsession. A darkly funny, intense memoir about mental illness, memory and storytelling, from an acclaimed novelist. But only some of this is true, Roberge admits. Liar: A Memoir is written by Rob Roberge and published by Crown. A frozen dog is also pulled from the water momentarily. In a desperate attempt to preserve his identity, he sets out to (somewhat faithfully) record the most formative moments of his.

Cadavers judged to be from first class are put in caskets, while dead steerage passengers were weighted and sent to the bottom. When musician 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. His grandfather had a friend aboard the ship from Halifax that was tasked with retrieving the bodies floating in 28-degree water. But if the initial fact is the true event, that initial truth then becomes like a sophisticated virus that adapts to each host, so that it is never quite identical to the original virus, nor to its manifestations in any other host.'

Liar by rob roberge