Lit : a memoir /

Karr, Mary

Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr. - First Harper Perennial Olive Edition. - x, 436 pages ; 19 cm

"Limited edition"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

9780062421098 0062421093

2009024810


Karr, Mary--Mental health.
Karr, Mary--Childhood and youth.
Karr, Mary--Family.


Poets, American--20th century--Biography
Recovering alcoholics--United States--Biography.
Mental illness--United States--Case studies.
Alcoholism--United States--Case studies.
Dysfunctional families--Texas.


Texas--Biography