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Mary Karr · 2000
A memoir of Mary Karr's adolescence in 1970s East Texas, exploring first love, sexuality, and the formation of identity during the turbulent teenage years. Written with poetic lyricism and unflinching honesty, it serves as a universal coming-of-age narrative.
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What this book knows
Adolescence is a country of the body: desire, shame, and literary hunger forge a self in East Texas exile.
embodiment
It's a sad perversion that you only know how to display your own desire by evoking his.
CMK-RC-135You have one raging horror of looking like you don't know what to do, and another horror of looking like a slut.
CMK-RC-138He makes a cage of his arms I step right in. He tilts my face up and I lean into his kiss.
CMK-RC-062self-and-identity
You'll spend decades trying to will Same Self into being. But you'll keep shape-shifting. Probably everyone must.
CMK-RC-207You've unearthed the ultimate sentence, the endlessly resonant snippet of language. You finally say: There's no place like home.
CMK-RC-205trauma-and-survival
The idea of some scruffy-handed grown-up taking that liberty in the region of my underpants scared me.
CMK-RC-057Illuminates
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