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Summary: Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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Summary: The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009