Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper, c2009Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 386 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780060596996; 0060596988 (hardcover); 9780061939006; 0061939005; 9780060596996 (pbk)Subject(s): 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 | Problem families -- Texas | Texas -- BiographyDDC classification: 811/.54 | B LOC classification: PS3561.A6929 | Z4683 2009Summary: 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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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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