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 Cherry
by Mary Karr
Viking, 2001
With the confidence and sass you can still retain at that age, 10-year-old Mary Karr wrote in her diary, "When I grow up, I want to write half-poetry and half autobiography." With three books of poetry and two memoirs out, Karr is almost there. She is the author of The Liar's Club, the 1995 book that is often credited as among the first to herald the new craze for the form and certainly one of the best. Critics hailed it as a pitch-perfect and poetically precise rendering of growing up American in a town you want to leave. The book was a best-seller, anchoring many a book club meeting.
Now she's written the sequel, called Cherry, in which we follow her path into adolescence and—as the title might lead you to believe—loss of innocence.
Newsweek writes, "Picking up where she left off in her hit memoir The Liar’s Club, Karr careers into her teens, where she discovers dope, adolescent angst and sex. Not the delightful surprise the first installment was—this time we know she can write—so let’s just call it plain delightful."
About the author
Mary Karr's memoir, The Liars' Club, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. A poet and essayist, she has won Pushcart prizes in both genres. Her other grants and awards include the prestigious Whiting Award and the Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. Her previous poetry collections are Abacus, The Devil's Tour, and Viper Rum. She is a full professor at Syracuse University.
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