Lit

By Mary Karr

Subjects: Dysfunctional families, Case studies, Alcoholics, biography, Mental illness, case studies, Alcoholism, Biography, Recovering alcoholics, Childhood and youth, Texas, biography, Women, united states, biography, Large type books, Family, Mental illness, American Poets, Mental health, Poets, biography

Description: The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.