ANNE LAMOTT is the author of theNew York Times bestsellersAlmost Everything;Hallelujah Anyway;Help, Thanks, Wow;Small Victories;Stitches;Some Assembly Required;Grace (Eventually);Plan B;Traveling Mercies; andOperating Instructions. She is also the author of seven novels, includingImperfect Birds andRosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.
"Even at her most serious, she never takes herself or her
spirituality too seriously. 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
"Life-affirming ... 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
"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
"Exuberant and captivating.... shifts from laugh-out-loud
wisecracks to heart-wrenching poignancy. At one point she seems a
reincarnation of Erma Bombeck; at others, she could be Annie
Dillard or Kathleen Norris." —Chicago Tribune
"Compares with the witty and moving Christian apologetics of C. S.
Lewis.... Lamott is a fine writer who combines theology with humor,
compassion, and practicality." —The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
"Applies passion, wisdom, and intensity to a scorchingly personal
look at the road from spiritual apathy to ardent belief....
Traveling Mercies, like Ms. Lamott herself, is a consistent
delight." —Dallas Morning News
"Lamott has developed an entirely new genre of religious writing.
Gritty, stark, and humorous, she catches the reader by surprise
when she points her pen heavenward.... Anne Lamott [is] the patron
saint of struggling sinners, a woman who loves God enough to be
divinely human." —Religion News Service
"Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent
and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same
breath." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Even at her most serious, she never takes herself or her
spirituality too seriously. 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
"Life-affirming ... 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
"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
"Exuberant and captivating.... shifts from laugh-out-loud
wisecracks to heart-wrenching poignancy. At one point she seems a
reincarnation of Erma Bombeck; at others, she could be Annie
Dillard or Kathleen Norris." -Chicago Tribune
"Compares with the witty and moving Christian apologetics of C. S.
Lewis.... Lamott is a fine writer who combines theology with humor,
compassion, and practicality." -The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
"Applies passion, wisdom, and intensity to a scorchingly personal
look at the road from spiritual apathy to ardent belief....
Traveling Mercies, like Ms. Lamott herself, is a consistent
delight." -Dallas Morning News
"Lamott has developed an entirely new genre of religious writing.
Gritty, stark, and humorous, she catches the reader by surprise
when she points her pen heavenward.... Anne Lamott [is] the patron
saint of struggling sinners, a woman who loves God enough to be
divinely human." -Religion News Service
"Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent
and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same
breath." -San Francisco Chronicle
This book, Lamott's eighth (following Crooked Little Heart, LJ 4/1/97), is part spiritual autobiography, part essay on living as a recovering alcoholic, drug abuser, and bulimic and a loving but deeply anxious single mother. Lamott tells of finding Christian faith and learning to allow it to help her through tough times. Working hard at self-examination, she makes no excuses for herself. At times wickedly funny, her prose is as lovely as always. She notes that to Christians "death is really just a major change of addresses," but when her son is sick, the glibness vanishes, and she must work hard to allow herself patience and peace. Her musings on cellulite, curly hair, sick children, and fear of dogs are entertaining. She's the mouthy best friend we cherish at our kitchen table. Recommended for public libraries.‘Judith Kicinski, Sarah Lawrence Coll., Bronxville, NY
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