LIT by Mary Karr

LIT follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness and to her astonishing resurrection.

Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to Warren, a blueblood poet produces a son that they adore. But, she can't outrun her past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her mother. She reaches the brink of suicide. A hair raising stint in "The Mental Marriot," with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith.

This is a conversion story that reads with dark hilarity.

LIT is about getting drunk and getting sober. It is about becoming a mother by letting go of a mother. It is the story of learning to write by learning to live. It is an electrifying story of how to grow up.