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Essays. Literary Criticism. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:The New York Times bestseller from the author of Help, Thanks, Wow, Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Dusk, Night, Dawn. Lamott's long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace. Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It�??s an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us�??our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found. Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepres… (more)
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Well, go ahead and breathe….No worries. Anne Lamott just gets better and better. Wiser and wiser.
Yes, read this book. If you are like me and
Anyhow, this book has only a small amount of that annoying tendency, and a lot of genuine emotion, and hard-won wisdom. Anne Lamott has had a lot dying friends, and seems to have spent at least a little while just being with each one of them, which is so unbelievably difficult. She doesn't paper over the difficulty, and writes with wit about her mixed motives for generosity and forgiveness. I loved the essay about the Ham of God, in which she is the completely unwilling and grumpy instrument of aid to another family.
The writing was typical Anne Lamott-
I really cannot say enough how much I truly love this book. Will be buying a hard copy so I can mark it up and read it over and over. Then give it to someone and start the cycle all over again. I will shove this book on you. I will be that person. NO SHAME.