New York Times Book Review β’ The New YorkerΒ β’Β Entertainment WeeklyΒ β’Β Time β’ Washington PostΒ β’Β San Francisco ChronicleΒ β’Β Chicago TribuneΒ β’ Christian Science MonitorΒ β’Β SlateΒ β’Β St. Louise Post-Dispatch β’ Cleveland Plain Dealer β’ Seattle Times β’ NBCC Award Finalist
Mary Karrβs unforgettable sequel to her beloved and bestselling memoirsΒ The Liarsβ ClubΒ andΒ CherryΒ βlassos you, hogties your emotions and wonβt let you goβ (Michiko Kakutani,Β 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 upβas only Mary Karr can tell it.
The Boston Globe calls Lit a book that βreminds 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 βa master class on the art of the memoirβ and Susan Cheever states, simply, that Lit is βthe best book about being a woman in America I have read in years."
Mary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liarsβ 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.