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Author Karr, Mary.

Title Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper, [2009]
©2009
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1415103~S1
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 Nichols Adult Biography  BIO KARR    AVAILABLE
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Description 386 pages ; 24 cm
Summary The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
Subject Karr, Mary -- Mental health.
Karr, Mary -- Childhood and youth.
Karr, Mary -- Family.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Recovering alcoholics -- Biography.
Mental illness -- Case studies.
Alcoholism -- Case studies.
Dysfunctional families -- Texas.
Texas -- Biography.
ISBN 9780060596989 (hardcover)
9780061939006
0060596988 (hardcover)
0061939005
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SRP 2010
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October 20 2010
SRP 2010 REVIEW: I loved this book so much, I followed this read with Karr's "Liar's Club" (about her childhood) right after, and I've got the book about her teen years ("Cherry") on hold. In this memoir, Karr writes of her struggle with alcohol addiction. I found her story moving and her way with language masterful.
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