Summary of Mary Karr's Cherry

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#1 Violet had a hamster and a miniature turtle who lived in a shallow plastic bowl under a palm tree with snap-on fronds. One night, the hamster nosed out of his poorly latched cage and scampered across the glowing iron surface of the gas heater, blistering the bottoms of his tiny pink feet.

#2 Violet was beautiful and much loved by the general public. She represented herself as both entitled to and surprised by her pampering. She had a Snoopy box purse that smelled like grated lemon peel and baby powder.

#3 I spent that summer reading, and I fell into a deep well of idleness, which was stifling. I spent the summer reading the Edgar Rice Burroughs books, and I imagined running away to Africa to find a man like Tarzan.

#4 My mother was a teacher, and she would spend her mornings at a local college studying for her teaching certificate. She wanted a higher standard of life than the local average, and she feared destitution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822522350

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Violet had a hamster and a miniature turtle who lived in a shallow plastic bowl under a palm tree with snap-on fronds. One night, the hamster nosed out of his poorly latched cage and scampered across the glowing iron surface of the gas heater, blistering the bottoms of his tiny pink feet.

#2

Violet was beautiful and much loved by the general public. She represented herself as both entitled to and surprised by her pampering. She had a Snoopy box purse that smelled like grated lemon peel and baby powder.

#3

I spent that summer reading, and I fell into a deep well of idleness, which was stifling. I spent the summer reading the Edgar Rice Burroughs books, and I imagined running away to Africa to find a man like Tarzan.

#4

My mother was a teacher, and she would spend her mornings at a local college studying for her teaching certificate. She wanted a higher standard of life than the local average, and she feared destitution.

#5

I was always drawing, and I took a black leather sketchbook from my mother’s studio. I glued green and red Christmas glitter on the cover, then wrote in baroque cursive: Me too—Mary Karr 1966.

#6

I had a lot of poems written about my crush on a cowboy named Jason McSomething on the TV show Branded. I would go around visiting random houses and trying to sell Christmas cards, though I had no samples or proof of this.

#7

The woman in the pale blue duster was the first person I met who had lost a child to suicide. She had laid down plastic runners along the most traveled paths to keep the carpet naps fluffy. The living room was cold and smelled like a pot of cabbage left too long on the stove.

#8

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