Title: Lit
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.
Subjects: Mental health, Childhood and youth, Family, Dysfunctional families, American Poets, Mental illness, Case studies, Recovering alcoholics, Large type books, Alcoholism, Biography, Women, united states, biography, Poets, biography, Alcoholics, biography, Mental illness, case studies, Texas, biography
Places: United States, Texas
People: Mary Karr
Time periods: 20th century