![]() ![]() But the book’s best insights are subtle, like the thought, on a beach vacation, that heaven must be like snorkeling: “dreamy, soft, bright, quiet.” Agent: Sarah Chalfant, Wylie Agency. He’d never have been elected anything” in an essay about teaching prisoners how to tell their stories. ![]() Sometimes she drifts toward clichés, as when she learns, on a hike with a sick friend, that “getting found almost always means being lost for a while.” At her best, Lamott is refreshingly frank, admitting that she doesn’t want a passionate relationship as much as she wants “someone to text all day and watch TV with.” She also has the rare ability to weave bracing humor seamlessly with earnest, Christian faith, observing, “Jesus was soft on crime. Every essay offers a revelation, often tied to her Christian faith. But even when considering these hardships, Lamott remains optimistic. Most of the essays involve people Lamott knows who are either dead or suffering from a terminal disease: her best friend who had cancer her friends’ two-year-old daughter with cystic fibrosis her mother with Alzheimer’s, to name a few. ![]() Her subject matter is often dark, deriving from the travails of aging and mortality that Lamott, who is now 60, has observed in recent years. ![]() Lamott ( Help, Thanks, Wow) returns with an essay collection that tackles tough subjects with sensitive and unblinking honesty. Following the success of her charming book about writing, Bird by Bird (1994), and her memoir of motherhood, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year (1993), Anne Lamott has. ![]()
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