Lit :
Karr, Mary.
Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper, c2009. - x, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780060596989 0060596988 9780061918131 (pbk.) 006191813X (pbk.)
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.
Proofs (Printing)
PS3561.A6929 / Z4683 2009
Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper, c2009. - x, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780060596989 0060596988 9780061918131 (pbk.) 006191813X (pbk.)
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.
Proofs (Printing)
PS3561.A6929 / Z4683 2009
