Lit : A Memoir

English

ISBN: 0061885479

EAN: 9780061885471

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Women/Biography & Autobiography / Literary/Self-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcoholism/Family & Relationships / Family Relationships/Psychology / Mental Illness/Biography & Autobiography / General/Psychology / Psychopathology / Addiction/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 11/30/2009

Synopsis: The Liars Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karrs 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 sinners descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness- and to her astonishing resurrection. Karrs longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she cant 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 Karrs 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.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

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Lit : A Memoir

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.16 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 21.66 oz

Pages: 578