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
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