Cherry

Mary Karr is a literary god. She is just brilliant. Her prose is like poetry but without the self-consciousness that usually accompanies prose stylists who write like poets and vice versa. She also manages to capture the flavor of living in east Texas - the turns of phrase, the slang - without seemi......more

"The trick in that town was getting through a night at all without stalling in the sludge of your own thoughts." MaryKarr on audio is perfection. She's smart and gritty – a combination I'm drawn to. She has quickly become one of my favorite authors. At this point, I'd be awed by her grocery list.......more

Mary Karr's, "Cherry," is a real "trip," and I don't mean that in the literal sense, like a trip to France. In short, it is the best articulation of what it feels like to be on an LSD trip, hallucinating for three days straight, that I have ever read. "Cherry, is the the sequel to Ms. Karr's memoir,......more

All Grown Up This is not the first person journal of a teenager, but a memoir written by a mature adult in the second person (which sometimes sounds like the older self is addressing and advising the younger self). The adult language often has an abstraction beyond what you’d expect of the adolescent......more