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Thoughts on Faith
Riverhead
March 2007
On Sale: March 20, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 1594489424
EAN: 9781594489426
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The sharp, funny, and heartfelt follow-up to her
bestselling Plan B, Anne Lamott's newest collection
is a personal exploration of the faith and grace all around
us. In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith,
Lamott examines the ways we're caught in life's most
daunting predicaments: love, mothering, work, politics, and
maybe toughest of all, evolving from who we are to who we
were meant to be. This is a complicated process for most of
us, and Lamott turns her wit and honesty inward to describe
her own intimate, bumpy, and unconventional road to grace
and faith. "I wish grace and healing were more
abracadabra kinds of things," she writes in one of her
essays, "that delicate silver bells would ring to announce
grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on
the floor, in silence, in the dark." Whether she's
writing about her unsuccessful efforts to get her money back
from an obstinate carpet salesman, grappling with the
tectonic shifts in her relationship with her son as he
matures, trying to maintain her faith and humor during
politically challenging times, or helping a close friend die
with dignity, Lamott seeks out both the divinity and the
humanity in herself and everything around her. Throughout
these essays, she writes of her struggle to find the essence
of her faith, which she uncovers in the unlikeliest places.
By turns insightful and hilarious, pointed and poignant,
Grace (Eventually) is Anne Lamott at her perceptive
and irreverent best.
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