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Lit

A Memoir

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Lit

Written by: Mary Karr
Narrated by: Mary Karr
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Christian Science Monitor • Slate • St. Louise Post-Dispatch • Cleveland Plain Dealer • Seattle Times • NBCC Award Finalist

Mary Karr’s unforgettable sequel to her beloved and bestselling memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry “lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).

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.

The Boston Globe calls Lit a book that “reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art." The New York Times Book Review calls it “a master class on the art of the memoir” and Susan Cheever states, simply, that Lit is “the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years."

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a perfect recovery story. you helped me. Love you.im in na and also read the Bible but going to kneel more when praying...

thanks, Mary

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A poetic memoir of addiction and recovery but it's not ABOUT addiction and recovery. It's just a story, her story. A great story. A great writer. Karr writes about a famous program of recovery, without naming it, true to its traditions of anonymity. The special treat, that the Texan author narrates it, makes it worth a listen PLUS a read. I'd read it over a decade ago, and listening to it now, it's as if I'd skimmed over all of it. This book is for anyone who can read or listen.

Poetic Memoir

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Great storyline about a girls life which has been surrounded with alcoholism of her parents and how she breaks the cycle and heald and moves forward with her life.

Addiction Codependence Recovery Book.

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