My Life, Starring Dara Falcon by Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie,
My Life, Starring Dara Falcon, a novel: Beattie's sixth novel is narrated, with soaring irony and comic verve, by Jean Warner, a young bride in New England whose life and marriage are spun helter-skelter by the arrival of Dara Falcon, a brilliant, pathological liar. (Knopf)