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. |y .i65838324 |i 30738001415859 |l cola |s - |k |u 1 |x 0 |w 0 |v 0 |t 3 |z 05-14-12 |o l |a 813.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. |a Novelists, American |y 20th century |v Biography. |a New York : |b Riverhead Books, |c 2005.

|a Plan B : |b further thoughts on faith / |c Anne Lamott. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, 'Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration.' 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 her faith as well: getting older her mother's Alzheimer's her son's adolescence and the passing of friends and time.įortunately 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.

Environmental devastation looms even closer. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. From 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.Īs Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place.

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