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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review * The New Yorker*Entertainment Weekly*Time * Washington Post*San Francisco Chronicle*Chicago Tribune* Christian Science Monitor*Slate*St. Louise Post-Dispatch * Cleveland Plain Dealer * Seattle Times * NBCC Award FinalistMary Karr's unforgettable sequel to her beloved and bestselling memoirsThe Liars' ClubandCherry&quote;lassos you, hogties your emotions and won't let you go&quote; (Michiko Kakutani,New York Times).Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up-as only Mary Karr can tell it.The Boston Globe calls Lit a book that &quote;reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art.&quote; The New York Times Book Review calls it &quote;a master class on the art of the memoir&quote; and Susan Cheever states, simply, that Lit is &quote;the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.&quote;