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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.
The world is a more dangerous place than
it was when Lamott's Traveling Mercies was published
five years ago. Terrorism and war have become the new normal;
environmental devastation looms even closer. 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.
Fortunately 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. 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 will prove to be further evidence that, as The
Christian Science Monitor has written, "Everybody loves
Anne Lamott."
Anne Lamott is the author of the bestsellers Traveling
Mercies, Operating Instructions, and Bird by
Bird, as well as six novels, including Crooked Little
Heart and Rosie. Her column in Salon magazine
was voted Best of the Web by Newsweek. A past recipient
of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lamott lives in northern California.
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