Mary Karr | Cherry
Recorded Oct 18, 2001
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20011018-marykar.mp3
Mary Karr’s best-selling memoir, The Liar’s Club, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. The sequel, Cherry, careens between hilarity and tragedy as Karr chronicles her stormy, ardent coming-of-age in, and subsequent escape from, Texas. A poet and essayist, she has won Pushcart prizes in both genres as well as the prestigious Whiting Award. She will read from Cherry.
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