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Book Review of Cherry (Audio Cassette)

Cherry (Audio Cassette)
Cherry (Audio Cassette)
Author: Mary Karr
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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Cherry finds the teenage Mary still marooned in a family whose behavior ranges from charmingly eccentric to dangerously crazy. (This, for instance, is the Karr version of a note from home: "Lecia Karr's leprosy kicked in, and I had to wrap her limbs in balm and hyssop. Please excuse her.") But here the focus has shifted to Mary herself, furiously engaged in pissing off authority at every turn: flouting the dress code, dropping acid, running from the cops, falling in love.

I haven't listened to this one.