Lit

By Mary Karr

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