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Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, go in, as if it were some stray relative in search of lodging.

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Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, go in, as if it were some stray relative in search of lodging.

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About Mary Karr

Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.