Mary Karr’s bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry—and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year—Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Mary Karr is a very talented writer and, to begin with, I was thrilled to have found a new author to read. For the first two thirds of the book I was totally absorbed with the story of her difficult background and incompatible marriage, the highs and lows of motherhood and her descent into alcoholism. “Any way I tell this story is a lie,” reads the first line of “Lit” by poet and memoirist Mary Karr.
How long can she keep this up? Lit is Mary Karr's third volume of autobiography, after The Liars' Club (childhood, Texas, poverty) and Cherry (adolescence, Texas, sex, drugs, poetry), and, taken together, the three form something that's beginning to resemble an epic of turn-of-the-millennium American womanhood. Lit, which took Karr seven years to write, describes her adult life as a wife, mother and poet, and as a drinker and then a recovering alcoholic. Whatever her personal struggles, she seems to have been born with the inability to write a dishonest sentence — or a boring one.
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