In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her uringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times marri...

Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, 'Lit' is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up--as only Mary Karr can tell it.

Mary Karr continues the story she began in THE LIARS' CLUB. In CHERRY, she writes about her rebellious adolescence, which included school troubles, sexual adventures, a stint in jail, and the collection of unusual fringe people she ca...