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Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr.

Karr, Mary, (author.).

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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.

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ISBN: 9780060596989
ISBN: 0060596988
ISBN: 9780061918131
ISBN: 006191813X
ISBN: 9780061939006
ISBN: 0061939005
ISBN: 9780060596996
ISBN: 0060596996
Physical Description: x, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Harper, ©2009.

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Formatted Contents Note:: Escape from the tropic of squalor -- Flashdance -Self help -- Being who you are is not a disorder.

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Subject:: Karr, Mary > Mental health.
Karr, Mary > Childhood and youth.
Karr, Mary > Family.
Karr, Mary.
Karr, Mary > Mental health.
Karr, Mary > Family.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Recovering alcoholics > United States > Biography.
Mental illness > United States > Case studies.
Alcoholism > United States > Case studies.
Dysfunctional families > Texas.
Texas > Biography.
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Dysfunctional families.
Families.
Mental health.
Mental illness.
Poets, American.
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Texas.
United States.
American poets > Biography.
Recovering alcoholics > Biography.
Mental illness > United States > Case studies.
Alcoholism > United States > Case studies.
Domestic relations > Texas.
Texas > Biography.
Texas > Biography.
Dysfunctional families > Texas.
Karr, Mary > Family.
Karr, Mary > Childhood and youth.
Alcoholism > United States > Case studies.
Mental illness > United States > Case studies.
Recovering alcoholics > United States > Biography.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Karr, Mary > Mental health.
Genre:: Autobiographies.
Biography.
Case studies.
Autobiographies.
Case studies.

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