![]() ![]() She still writes with a singular combination of poetic grace and Texan verve, which allows her to present the experiences as fresh, but she also brings a potent, self-condemning honesty and a palpable sense of responsibility and regret to the narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() The difference, though, is the way in which Karr renders these stories. Most of the scenes that unfold from here, unlike those from her eccentric childhood, are more familiar: the college student desperate to manifest her intellect the poor country girl trying to prove to her rich WASP dinner hosts that she’s worthy of their son a sleep-deprived new mom with a pot roast to cook the AA newcomer who thinks she doesn’t really have a problem the sinful skeptic arriving at faith. Quickly bored, and realizing it was a mistake to turn her back on higher education, Karr secured loans and sought the book-lined security of the college campus. The author picks up where her 2000 memoir Cherry left off-escaping her toxic childhood in small-town Texas for the California coast. Sinners Welcome: Poems, 2006, etc.) deftly covers a vast stretch of her life-age 17 to her present 50. Acclaimed poet and bestselling memoirist Karr (English Literature/Syracuse Univ. ![]()
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