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This experience spooked me badly, but I thought it was just an apparition born of fear and self-loathing and booze and loss of blood. But then everywhere I went I had the feeling that a little cat was following me, wanting me to reach down and pick it up, wanting me to open the door and let it in. But I knew what would happen: you let a cat in one time, give it a little milk and then it stays forever.Whether she's writing about airplane turbulence, bulimia, her "feta cheese thighs," or consulting God over how to parent her son, Lamott keeps her spirituality firmly planted in solid scenes and believable metaphors. As a result, this is a richly satisfying armchair-travel experience, highlighting the tender mercies of Lamott's life that nudged her into Christian faith. --Gail Hudson
"If you're stuck in an elevator when the Big One hits, you couldn't do much better than be stranded there with Anne Lamott. In a pinch, even her latest book, a collection of funny, warm, and sagacious personal essays. . . could get you through the dark hours. . . How much, and how little, faith can change us is Lamott's real theme. In meditations on her bulimia, her natty hair, her irritation with her aging, much-loved mother, she makes it clear that she is the same old Annie she always was, with the same insecurities and quirks. She doesn't wake up in a pool of sunlight every morning. But her faith provides an outlook on life that is less selfish than the one she would normally resort to. . . What saves Lamott's stories from sentimentality is is her ability to face truly taboo subjects, like envy and maternal competitiveness. Instead of a rose garden, she presents us with a scraggly, half-planted patch of earth--a real garden, with mounds of fresh soil and a steaming compost heap. One senses that Lamott, like most of us, is just working through things. Some flowers will get trampled or blighted, but others will burst into bloom. What remains with the reader are her tenderness and generosity. She gives enormous credit to her friends and family, to the old women at her church, to the authors she has read and to that "someone listening."
-- Regina Marler, Los Angeles Times
"It's like having a coffee with a cranky, funny, chatty hilarious friend... It's a wonderful book."
--Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America
"Hilarious... Anne Lamott has got the sort of heart that takes the chill out of the winter air. Like the rising tide, it floats all boats. This writer is tough. Tough on the world, tough on herself as well. Faith, for me, is not a place I've landed. It's a cliff I run off. You get the whole journey here. Lamott falls off the cliff, comes back brilliant, generous and funny. This is C.S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy. Only better."
--Ben Cheever, San Jose Mercury News
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