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Cherry: A Memoir Book

The second of Mary Karr's memoirs, Cherry, slips seamlessly into the rhythm and distinctive style of the first. As a girl idling her way through long, toxically boring summer afternoons in Leechfield, Texas, Karr dreamed up an unusual career for herself; "to write one-half poetry and one-half autobiography". She has since done both, and even when she's recounting a dirty joke, she can't help but employ a poet's precise and musical vision. Her first memoir, The Liar's Club, was as searing a chronicle of family life as can be imagined--tough, funny, and crackling with sorrow and wit. Against all odds, its sequel doesn't disappoint. Cherry finds the teenage Mary still marooned in a family whose behaviour ranges from charmingly eccentric to dangerously crazy. (This, for instance, is the Karr … read more...
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