And I will read this book again for a third time. But her prose is near and present for me, making me feel better about my struggles about a lack of faith or the problematic practice of it. There would be firestarting, fireworks, loud arguments. There are authors who I would really love to listen to but hate to meet over dinner. Like teeth grinding while quitting cocaine and bad boyfriends all the way to grief over losing a pet but also wanting to gather a small pile of stones just in case you need to resort to the Old Testament stoning method for a moody, rebellious teenager. She's definitely the kind of girl who wouldn't go to the bathroom with a toothpick at a barbecue, and I like that.the oh fucks, the shitty days, the raw admittance of real struggles, past and present.

On re-reading this, I am finding much more to like.

It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, 'Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration.' It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort and to make us laugh despite the grim realities.Īnne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. And there are personal demands on her faith as well: getting older her mother's Alzheimer's her son's adolescence and the passing of friends and time.įortunately for those of us who are anxious about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope that we’re not alone in the midst of despair. Environmental devastation looms even closer. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway and Help, Thanks, Wow, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.Īs Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place.

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