Lit, by Mary Karr

For July, we will be reading a memoir that was on the New York Times bestseller list last year - Lit, by Mary Karr. Follows is a review of this book by Susan Olasky, originally published in World Magazine (12/5/09 issue):

Lit | Mary Karr

Lit is often painful to read. Mary Karr tells how she began drinking and eventually stopped, and how her hard won sobriety came about as she came kicking and screaming to faith in God. As Karr achieved worldly success—winning poetry awards, getting published, teaching at Harvard, marrying a New England blue blood and having a child—she began falling apart. She writes with a combination of searing honesty about her own faults and restraint in describing the faults of others, including her husband from whom she divorced. The book's raw language will offend some readers, but never have I read a more moving account of someone seeing her need for God's mercy.


We will discuss this book on Friday, July 29 at 7:30 pm.