
Mary Karr
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015 Hardcover, 256 pages with appendix
In her
opening words, Mary Karr waves a yellow flag to signal this is not just another
how-to book.
“No one
elected me the boss of memoir. I speak for no one but myself. Every writer
worth her salt is sui generis [unique]. Memoirists’ methods—with regard to
handling