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A Memoir
Harper
November 2009
On Sale: November 3, 2009
400 pages
ISBN: 0060596988
EAN: 9780060596989
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary
Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of
her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard
for making the personal universal" (Entertainment Weekly).
Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's
descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness—and to
her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her
marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet
produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her
apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness
that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother,
reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The
Mental Marriott," with an oddball tribe of gurus and
saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads
her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine
cried, "Give me chastity, Lord—but not yet!" has a
conversion story rung with such dark hilarity. Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a
mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by
learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty,
unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating
humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up—
as only Mary Karr can tell it.
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