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Lit

A Memoir

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Lit

By: Mary Karr
Narrated by: Mary Karr
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Christian Science Monitor • Slate • St. Louise Post-Dispatch • Cleveland Plain Dealer • Seattle Times • NBCC Award Finalist

Mary Karr’s unforgettable sequel to her beloved and bestselling memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry “lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).

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.

The Boston Globe calls Lit 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."" The New York Times Book Review calls it “a master class on the art of the memoir” and Susan Cheever states, simply, that Lit is “the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.""

©2009 Mary Karr; (P)2010 HarperCollins Publishers
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The crazy in-laws, the difficult parents, the everyday obligations- we all have it and so does she.

Such a personable story told with compassion for herself and the people who share her life.
Loved the narration, a great example of quit-lit

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It took me many attempts to get through this one. By the I'd reached 9 hrs I felt I'd come too far not to finish. Next time I will utilise the audible return policy earlier. Her story is an interesting one, but I just couldn't get into the writing style. Long winded and wordy, with monotone narration served only to continually put me to sleep. I guess it's the poet in Mary thinking ordinary writing may be too dull. This however, failed to captive me, rather than not being able to put it down, I had to take many breaks to read something more interesting. Glad things worked out for her though.

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