Twenty years sober, Mary Karr recalls struggle with alchoholism and shame and isolation that perpetuated her hidden addiction. Jedi knight for mac. In her new memoir, 'LIT,' Karr, now 20 years sober, chronicles her. Mary Karr is a very talented writer and, to begin with, I was thrilled to have found a new author to read. For the first two thirds of the book I was totally absorbed with the story of her difficult background and incompatible marriage, the highs and lows of motherhood and her descent into alcoholism.
Lit Mary Karr Summary
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.
“Irresistible. . . . [Written] with trademark wit, precision, and unfailing courage.” (O Magazine)
“Mary Karr restores memoir form’s dignity with Lit.” (Vanity Fair)
“A brutally honest, sparkling story.” (Glamour)
“Riveting.” (Redbook Magazine)
“Irresistible. . . . [Written] with trademark wit, precision, and unfailing courage.” (O Magazine)
“Mary Karr restores memoir form’s dignity with Lit.” (Vanity Fair)
“A brutally honest, sparkling story.” (Glamour)
“Riveting.” (Redbook Magazine)