In a powerfully funny, razor's edge recollection of a fractured childhood, Mary Karr, who grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town, tells of being the epicenter of a family full of fierce, volatile attachments--a "terrific family of liars and drunks . . . redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth." Excerpted in Granta.
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