title: The Art of Memoir
author:  Mary Karr 
description: Karr is a national treasurethat rare genius whos also a brilliant teacher. This joyful celebration of memoir packs transcendent insights with trademark hilarity. Anyone yearning to write will be inspired, and anyone passionate to live an examined life will fall in love with language and literature all over again.  (George Saunders)<br /><br />Could have been called The Art of Living. (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>)<br /><br />Mary Karr has written another astonishingly perceptive, wildly entertaining, and profoundly honest book-funny, fascinating, necessary. <i>The Art of Memoir</i> will be the definitive book on reading and writing memoir for years to come. (Cheryl Strayed)<br /><br />Should be required reading for anyone attempting to write a memoir, but anyone who loves literature will enjoy it too. (<i>Wall Street Journal</i>)<br /><br />Terrific and deliciously readable guide. (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>, Must List)<br /><br />Full of Karrs usual wit, compassion and, perhaps most reassuringly, self-doubt. Her fans should be delightedand they cant go wrong reading the books she discusses, including her own. (<i>Washington Post</i>)<br /><br />From a contemporary luminary of the form, Mary Karrs <i>The Art of Memoir</i> examines our enduring drive to make memory speak and to wring some truth from this godawful mess of a single life. (<i>Vogue</i>)<br /><br /><i>The Art of Memoir</i> is passionate and irreverent-and reminds us why we love a good memoir. (<i>Elle</i>)<br /><br />Mary Karr strikes a vein in <i>The Art of Memoir.</i> (<i>Vanity Fair</i>)<br /><br />Karr is such fun to read-who else would combine the name Nabokov and the phrase out the wazoo on her very first page? (<i>New Yorker</i>)
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  **Aria and Will**
  
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  **Kallysten**
  
   **Part One**
  
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  **Aria’s White Roses**
  
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  **Chapter 1**
  