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"Mary Karr restores memoir form's dignity with Lit."--Vanity Fair

"A brutally honest, sparkling story."--Glamour

"Her tale is riveting, her style clear-eyed and frank. That Karr survived the emotional and physical journey she regales her readers with to become the evenhanded, self-disciplined writer she is today is arguably nothing short of a miracle, and readers of her previous two books won't be disappointed."--Library Journal

"There isn't a single false note in Lit."--Carmela Ciuraru, Christian Science Monitor

"Irresistible. . . . [Written] with trademark wit, precision, and unfailing courage."--Pam Houston, O Magazine

"Riveting."--Redbook Magazine

"Mary Karr sparked a memoir revival with The Liars' Club--now she's back with Lit to describe how she turned those early troubles into literary gold."--Body + Soul

"An absolute gem that secures Karr's place as one of the best memoirists of her generation. . . . [She] writes with a singular combination of poetic grace and Texan verve."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"[Karr's] poetic sensibility infuses every sentence of her story with an alliterative and symbolic energy, conjuring echoes of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, and occasionally, Sylvia Plath."--Publishers Weekly

"Searing. . . . A book that lassos you, hogties your emotions and won't let you go. . . . Chronicles with searching intelligence, humor and grace the author's slow, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes painful discovery of her vocation and her voice as a poet and writer."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

The best-selling author of The Liar's Club reveals a new piece of her life during which, 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 surprising spiritual awakening led her to sobriety. (Biography & autobiography). Simultaneous.