Lit : a memoir Mary Karr.
Material type: TextNew York : Harper, 2009Edition: First EditionDescription: x, 386 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780060596989
- 9780061918131 (pbk.)
- 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
- PS 3561.A6929 .K148 2009
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Circulation | DLSU-D HS Learning Resource Center Circulation | Circulation | PS 3561.A6929 .K148 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 000596 | Available | 3HSL2014000596 |
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.
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