At one point she seems a reincarnation of Erma Bombeck at others, she could be Annie Dillard or Kathleen Norris.' Chicago Tribune shifts from laugh-out-loud wisecracks to heart-wrenching poignancy. 'You'll love Traveling Mercies for Lamott's unblinking confrontation with God's love, and you'll buy copies for all your friends struggling with faith.' USA Today Lamott fills her text with remarkable detail and a refreshing sense of humanity that has you guffawing on one page and bawling on the next.' People Lamott is a narrator who has relished and soaked up the details of her existence, equally of mirth and devastation, spirit and grief, and spilled them onto her pages.' The New York Times Book Review 'Even at her most serious, she never takes herself or her spirituality too seriously. As she puts it, 'My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers.' Against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. Lamott's faith isn't about easy answers, which is part of what endears her to believers as well as nonbelievers. And Traveling Mercies is a welcome return to those lives, as well as an introduction to new companions Lamott treats with the same candor, insight, and tenderness.

The people in Anne Lamott's real life are like beloved characters in a favorite series for her readersher friend Pammy, her son, Sam, and the many funny and wise folks who attend her church are all familiar. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier nonfiction books. Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is 'Whatever,' and whose evening prayer is 'Oh, well.' Anne thinks of Jesus as 'Casper the friendly savior' and describes God as 'one crafty mother.'ĭespiteor because ofher irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Sometimes even in the same breath.' San Francisco Chronicle 'Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime.

From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes a personal, wise, very funny, and 'life-affirming' book ( People) that shows us how to find meaning and hope through shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life.

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