Monday, July 12, 2010

BOOK: Mary Karr @ 192 Books tonight (7/12)

Texan Mary Karr celebrates the paperback release of her 2009 bestseller Lit tonight with a reading at 192 Books at 7PM.

From 192: Please join us in celebrating the paperback release of Lit, named one of the “10 Best Books of 2009” by The New York Times. In Lit, the long-awaited sequel to he bestselling memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry, Mary Karr chronicles her descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection. A recollection of her struggle to come to terms with her Christian faith after years as an agnostic that explores the relationship between spirituality and substance abuse and depression, Lit is also about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; and learning to write by learning to live.

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