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Cherry

This memoir of adolescence follows the earlier volume by Mary Karr, The Liars' Club. In Cherry, we find Karr once again trying to run from the thrills and terrors of her psychological and physical awakening by violently crashing up against authority in all its forms, shuttling between the principal's office and the jail cell. Yearning, like a typical teenager, for the ideal love or heart's companion who will make her feel whole again, she throws in her lot with a varied and outrageous band: surfers, yogis and bona fide geniuses.

Subject
biographymemoir
Genre
coming of agehumorliterary fiction
Themes
womenfeminism
Setting
20th centurytexasUSA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 276 pages
Form
poetry

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