Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith - Softcover

Lamott, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594481571 ISBN 13: 9781594481574

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2006

Synopsis

With Anne Lamott's trademark wisdom, humor and honesty, Plan B is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in our increasingly fraught times. This New York Times bestseller picks up where Traveling Mercies left off.

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Review

Few people can write about faith, parenting, and relationships as can the talented, irreverent Anne Lamott. With characteristic black humor, ("Everyone has been having a hard time with life this year; not with all of it, just the waking hours") she updates us on the ongoing mayhem of her life since Traveling Mercies, and continues to unfold her spiritual journey.

Plan B finds Lamott wrestling with mid-life hormones and weight gain while parenting Sam, now a teenager with his own set of raging hormones. Her observations cover everything from starting a Sunday school to grief over the death of her beloved dog, Sadie; lamenting the war to bitterness over her relationship with her now-departed mother.

As she tugs and pokes out the knots in a slender gold chain necklace, it becomes a metaphor for letting go and learning to forgive. "...any willingness to let go inevitably comes from pain; and the desire to change changes you, and jiggles the spirit, gets to it somehow, to the deepest, hardest, most ruined parts." It s her willingness to show us the knotted-up, "ruined parts" of her life that make this collection of sometimes uneven essays so compelling.

"Everything feels crazy," writes Lamott, adding, "But on small patches of earth all over, I can see just as much messy mercy and grace as ever...." Lamott s essays will serve as reminders to readers of the patches of messy mercy and grace in a chaotic world.--Cindy Crosby

About the Author

The bestselling author of Bird By Bird, Operating Instructions, Traveling Mercies, and Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a former columnist for Salon and lives in northern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594481571
• ISBN 13: 9781594481574
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320