Lit: A Memoir - Rilegato

“Irresistible. . . . [Written] with trademark wit, precision, and unfailing courage.” (Pam Houston, O Magazine)

“Mary Karr restores memoir form’s dignity with Lit.” (Vanity Fair)

“A brutally honest, sparkling story.” (Glamour)

“Riveting.” (Redbook Magazine)

“Mary Karr sparked a memoir revival with The Liars’ Club—now she’s back with Lit to describe how she turned those early troubles into literary gold.” (Body + Soul)

“An absolute gem that secures Karr’s place as one of the best memoirists of her generation. . . . [She] writes with a singular combination of poetic grace and Texan verve.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

“[Karr’s] poetic sensibility infuses every sentence of her story with an alliterative and symbolic energy, conjuring echoes of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, and occasionally, Sylvia Plath.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Her tale is riveting, her style clear-eyed and frank. That Karr survived the emotional and physical journey she regales her readers with to become the evenhanded, self-disciplined writer she is today is arguably nothing short of a miracle, and readers of her previous two books won’t be disappointed.” (Library Journal)

“Searing. . . . A book that lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go. . . . Chronicles with searching intelligence, humor and grace the author’s slow, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes painful discovery of her vocation and her voice as a poet and writer.” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

“Karr could tell you what’s on her grocery list, and its humor would make you bust a gut, its unexpected insights would make you think and her pitch-perfect command of our American vernacular might even take your breath away.... [Karr] holds the position of grande dame memoirista.” (Samantha Dunn, Los Angeles Times)