TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karr,Mary
TI  - Lit: a memoir 
SN  - 9780060596989
AV  - PS 3561.A6929  .K148 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper
KW  - Karr, Mary
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Recovering alcoholics
KW  - United States
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Alcoholism
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Texas
KW  - Proofs (Printing)
N2  - 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
ER  -