Lit
a memoir
Karr, Mary.
creator
text
biography
nyu
New York, NY
Harper
c2009
2009
1st ed.
monographic
eng
x, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Mary Karr.
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n-us-tx
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
Biography
PS3561.A6929 Z4683 2009
811/.54 B
9780060596996
0060596988 (hardcover)
9780061939006
0061939005
9780060596996 (pbk)
2009024810
DLC
110519
20250702112859.0
310399120