National Catholic Reporter, September 29th, 2006
Mary Karr's new book, Sinners Welcome, is stunning both as poetry and conversion story. Those who have read Karr before will recognize her characteristically fresh, earthy language, but many will be astonished at the spiritual depth revealed in Sinners Welcome, her fourth book of poetry. Much of this she attributes to her conversion in 1996 "after a lifetime of undiluted agnosticism" to an "unlikely Catholicism."
It was an unexpected development for Ms. Karr, whose best-selling memoir The Liars' Club describes growing up as a bookish child in a "godless house" in a poor Texas oil town. To m...
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