The 10 Best Books of 2009
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-10 10:47
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LIT: A Memoir
By Mary Karr
Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, $25.99.
This sequel to “The Liars’ Club”and “Cherry”is also a master class on the art of the memoir. Mordantly funny, free of both self-pity and sentimentality, Karr describes her attempts to untether herself from her troubled family in rural Texas, her development as a poet and writer, and her struggles to navigate marriage and young motherhood even as she descends into alcoholism.