Book
Lit : a memoir
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, c2009.
Physical Description
x, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Subjects
- Women 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.
- Karr, Mary > Mental health.
- Karr, Mary > Childhood and youth.
- Karr, Mary > Family.