Lit
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Mary Karr
Edition: 1st HarperLuxe ed.
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 561
ISBN-13: 9780061885471
Subjects: Mental health; Childhood and youth; Family; Dysfunctional families; American Poets; Mental illness; Case studies; Recovering alcoholics; Large type books; Alcoholism; Biography
Description: 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.