Plan B: Further Thoughts on FaithFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. Environmental devastation looms even closer. 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. Fortunately 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. It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort and to make us laugh despite the grim realities. Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, "Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration." |
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... friend walk next to us in sunlight and in the dark night of the soul.” —Publishers Weekly “What bubbles to the surface of Plan B–a wonderful, wise bundle of her characteristically blithe prose sure to become a bestseller—will tickle ...
... friend walk next to us in sunlight and in the dark night of the soul.” —Publishers Weekly “What bubbles to the surface of Plan B–a wonderful, wise bundle of her characteristically blithe prose sure to become a bestseller—will tickle ...
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... friend's wedding that makes her look like Dame Edna. In these essays, we're to understand that the world is still full of heartbreaking possibility. In the best of Lamott's pieces, we're ready to believe it, yet again.” —The Cleveland ...
... friend's wedding that makes her look like Dame Edna. In these essays, we're to understand that the world is still full of heartbreaking possibility. In the best of Lamott's pieces, we're ready to believe it, yet again.” —The Cleveland ...
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... friendship, and great editing. My friends are the reason I have so much faith in God, and I owe special thanks to the people who help me with my work: Neshama Franklin, Tom Weston, Mark Childress, Geneen Roth, Doug Foster, and Anne ...
... friendship, and great editing. My friends are the reason I have so much faith in God, and I owe special thanks to the people who help me with my work: Neshama Franklin, Tom Weston, Mark Childress, Geneen Roth, Doug Foster, and Anne ...
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... friend called to wish me Happy Birthday, and I remembered something she'd said many years ago, while reading a Vanity Fair article about Hitler's affair with his niece. “I have had it with Hitler,” Peggy said vehemently, throwing the ...
... friend called to wish me Happy Birthday, and I remembered something she'd said many years ago, while reading a Vanity Fair article about Hitler's affair with his niece. “I have had it with Hitler,” Peggy said vehemently, throwing the ...
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... friend Father Tom called. He is one of my closest friends, a few years older than I, a scruffy aging Birkenstock type, like me, who gives lectures and leads retreats on spirituality. Usually he calls to report on the latest rumors of my ...
... friend Father Tom called. He is one of my closest friends, a few years older than I, a scruffy aging Birkenstock type, like me, who gives lectures and leads retreats on spirituality. Usually he calls to report on the latest rumors of my ...
Contents
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three sams dad | 31 |
seven adolescence | 91 |
eight sincere meditations | 103 |
ten hard rain | 125 |
eleven good friday world | 135 |
twelve diamond heart | 147 |
fourteen joice to the world | 177 |
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