June 13, 2012
Lit
by Mary Karr
 
The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal. Now Lit follows the self-professed black belt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness — and to her astonishing resurrection. Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up — as only Mary Karr can tell it.