She comments in the book that her son is entering adolescence as she enters menopause, often walking into the shower while wearing her glasses. We both have memorable hair, hers in dreadlocks, mine sticking straight up from my moussed and perhaps pointed head. Our lives run parallel, only I realized it before she did as she got off her duff sooner than did I. I am bugging out on Sunday to drive a rental car to Marin County to attend her church and just MAKE her be my friend and read my book. In fact, on my trip to northern California next weekend to the Mt. Maybe by that time I'll have gathered a small pile of stones designated for throwing at a rebellious and ass-y teen. And I will read this book again for a third time. But her prose is near and present for me, making me feel better about my struggles about a lack of faith or the problematic practice of it. There would be firestarting, fireworks, loud arguments. There are authors who I would really love to listen to but hate to meet over dinner. Like teeth grinding while quitting cocaine and bad boyfriends all the way to grief over losing a pet but also wanting to gather a small pile of stones just in case you need to resort to the Old Testament stoning method for a moody, rebellious teenager. She's definitely the kind of girl who wouldn't go to the bathroom with a toothpick at a barbecue, and I like that.the oh fucks, the shitty days, the raw admittance of real struggles, past and present. On re-reading this, I am finding much more to like. It will prove to be further evidence that, as The Christian Science Monitor has written, "Everybody loves Anne Lamott." It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort, and to make us laugh despite the grim realities.Īnne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. And there are personal demands on Lamott's faith as well: turning fifty her mother's Alzheimer's her son's adolescence and the passing of friends and time.įortunately for those of us who are anxious and scared 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 in the midst of despair. Terrorism and war have become the new normal environmental devastation looms even closer. The world is a more dangerous place than it was when Lamott's Traveling Mercies was published five years ago. With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway bestseller, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.
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