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Mary Karr • 2009
Devastation Rating
addiction memoir alcoholism faith
Our Take
Karr's third memoir covers her years of alcoholism, her failed marriage, and her unlikely conversion to Catholicism. The prose is muscular and funny and beneath the humour is a woman who came very close to not surviving her own life. Recovery here is not redemption — it is daily labour.
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