Lit: A Memoir (P.S.)

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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 eager for a solid circle of relatives seems safe when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can not outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the similar 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 potential 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 inebriated 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, this can be a actually electrifying story of methods to grow up–as only Mary Karr can tell it.
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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 eager for a solid circle of relatives seems safe when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can not outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the similar 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 potential 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 inebriated 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, this can be a actually electrifying story of methods to grow up–as only Mary Karr can tell it.

Photos from Mary Karr
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Mary’s much adored oil-worker Daddy Mary’s artist mother, Charlie Karr Mary, at 22, meeting poet Howard Nemerov Mary one month before visiting the “Mental Marriott”
Mary, age 17, with sister Lecia, age 19 Mary and young son Dev Mary with circle of relatives before her Leitchfield Liars’ Club reading Mary celebrating the holidays with son Dev Mary’s son, Dev Milburn, in 2009


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