Lit

Lit (2009) by Mary Karr. The author of "The Liar's Club" and "Cherry" here goes into detail about her life after the events told in the first two books. "That's the story I want to tell:" she writes, "how I started getting drunk. How being drunk got increasingly hard, and being not drunk felt impossible." And this is the story she tells -- how, improbably, she became an alcoholic, and yet managed to sustain a career as a college teacher and author through all the struggle. How, somehow, good things came her way, how she learned to be sober, and how she found God. In writing the book, she adopts a poetic style, which at times makes for slow reading. The book is worth reading, however, to find out more about what happened in this fascinating life. As for myself, I'm going back and reading "The Liar's Club" again as soon as possible. Grade: B+