7/2/2023 0 Comments Cherry by mary karr![]() ![]() Writing in the second person, Karr recounts with disarming immediacy her tenuous childhood friendships, her rocky move into adolescence and sexual experimentation (she describes teenage kisses as ""delicate as origami in their folds and bendings"") her troubles with school authority and her early escape into books and language. ![]() When Mary is locked up in a drug raid, her mother rescues her by charming the judge, an old admirer. Karr struggles as the talented child of a sullen, dismissive father and an ethereal, unstable mother who studies art and disappears from time to time, functioning more as an ally than as a mother to young Mary, who she encourages to be sexually active. Readers seduced by Karr's canny memoir of a childhood spent under the spell of a volatile, defiantly loving family in the Liar's Club can look forward to more exquisite writing in this sequel focusing on her adolescence in a dusty Texas town. ![]()
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