Lit: A Memoir
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
New York Times Book Review âĸ The New Yorker âĸ Entertainment Weekly âĸ Time âĸ Washington Post âĸ San Francisco Chronicle âĸ Chicago Tribune âĸ Christian Science Monitor âĸ Slate âĸ St. Louise Post-Dispatch âĸ Cleveland Plain Dealer âĸ Seattle Times âĸ NBCC Award Finalist
Mary Karrâs unforgettable sequel to her beloved and bestselling memoirs The Liarsâ Club and Cherry âlassos you, hogties your emotions and wonât let you goâ (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 upâas only Mary Karr can tell it.
The Boston Globe calls Lit a book that âreminds 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 âa master class on the art of the memoirâ and Susan Cheever states, simply, that Lit is âthe best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.""
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Mary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liarsâ Club, Cherry, and Lit, as well as The Art of Memoir, also a New York Times bestseller. She received Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships for poetry and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.
