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."
