Lit -- Mary Karr

<p><strong>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR </strong></p><p><strong><em>New York Times Book Review</em> -<em> The New Yorker</em> -<em> Entertainment Weekly</em> -<em> Time </em>-<em> Washington Post</em> -<em> San Francisco Chronicle</em> -<em> Chicago Tribune</em> -<em> Christian Science Monitor</em> -<em> Slate</em> -<em> St. Louise Post-Dispatch</em> -<em> Cleveland Plain Dealer </em>-<em> Seattle Times</em> - NBCC Award Finalist</strong></p><p><strong>Mary Karr's unforgettable sequel to her beloved and bestselling memoirs <em>The Liars' Club</em> and <em>Cherry</em> "lassos you, hogties your emotions and won't let you go" (Michiko Kakutani, <em>New York Times</em>).</strong></p><p><em>Lit</em> 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.</p><p><em>The Boston Globe</em> calls <em>Lit</em> a book that "reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art. <em>The New York Times Book Review</em> calls it "a master class on the art of the memoir" and Susan Cheever states, simply, that <em>Lit</em> is "the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Mary Karr<br><b>Publisher:</b> Harper Perennial<br