Karr, Mary. <br/><br/>
Lit :  a memoir / 
Mary Karr. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York, NY :  Harper,  c2009. 
 - x, 386 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780060596996  14.99 0060596988 (hardcover) 9780061939006 0061939005 9780060596996 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009024810 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Karr, Mary--Mental health.<br/>Karr, Mary--Childhood and youth.<br/>Karr, Mary--Family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poets, American--20th century--Biography.<br/>Recovering alcoholics--United States--Biography.<br/>Mental illness--United States--Case studies.<br/>Alcoholism--United States--Case studies.<br/>Problem families--Texas.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Texas--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3561.A6929  / Z4683 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811/.54  B