{"title":"Mary Karr","description":"Mary Karr kick-started a memoir revolution with The Liars' Club, which was a New York Times bestseller for over a year, a best book of the year for The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, People and Time, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. Karr has won the Whiting Award, Radcliffe's Bunting Fellowship, and Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays, and she has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Her other bestselling books include The Art of Memoir, the memoirs Lit and Cherry, and the poetry collection Sinners Welcome, Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. The Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University, Karr lives in New York City.","products":[{"product_id":"lit-paperback","title":"Lit - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e Time \u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e Slate\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e St. Louise Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e Cleveland Plain Dealer \u003c\/i\u003e -\u003ci\u003e Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e - NBCC Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Karr's unforgettable sequel to her beloved and bestselling memoirs \u003ci\u003eThe Liars' Club\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCherry\u003c\/i\u003e \"lassos you, hogties your emotions and won't let you go\" (Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLit\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting story of addiction and recovery 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, this literary memoir is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up--as only Mary Karr can tell it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e calls \u003ci\u003eLit\u003c\/i\u003e a book that \"reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art.\" \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e calls it \"a master class on the art of the memoir\" and Susan Cheever states, simply, that \u003ci\u003eLit\u003c\/i\u003e is \"the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark memoir about motherhood, faith, and the writer's life, \u003ci\u003eLit\u003c\/i\u003e explores: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJourney to Sobriety: \u003c\/b\u003e From drunken nights on a back porch to the church basement meeting that changes everything, Karr chronicles her escape from alcoholism with unflinching candor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMemoir about Motherhood: \u003c\/b\u003e The story of becoming a mother by letting go of a mother--a powerful look at breaking the cycle of family dysfunction and finding a new way to love.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Writer's Life: \u003c\/b\u003e A poet's transformation, this is a master class on how learning to live--and get sober--is essential to learning how to write.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFinding Faith: \u003c\/b\u003e The raw, unexpected, and often hilarious story of a reluctant convert finding her way from the Ivy League to a Catholic church, discovering a spiritual life she never thought possible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLit\u003c\/em\u003e 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 up--as only Mary Karr can tell it. \u003c\/p\u003e--Pam Houston, \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLit\u003c\/em\u003e 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 up--as only Mary Karr can tell it. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51094163423455,"sku":"9780060596996","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1o1o3KsQR-9780060596996.webp?v=1786254727"},{"product_id":"the-liars-club-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Liars' Club: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e#4 on \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003es ear.\" --Oprah.com \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Liars' Club\u003c\/i\u003e took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's--a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as \"funny, lively, and un-put-downable\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e) today as it ever was.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51113236693215,"sku":"9780143035749","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UxlEk7fg-79780143035749.webp?v=1786279923"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mary-karr.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}