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Pregnancy Today Book Review
Operating Instructions - A Journal of My Son's First Year
By Anne Lamott review by Jillian Hanson
. It's like Patsy Cline's voice..."
Lamott's spirituality is a big part of this book. Fortunately, with her dry wit, she manages to avoid preaching about "all that Christian lunacy," as she describes it, and instead offers some unique insights into the universal struggle for faith, which most people will probably be able to relate to no matter where their spiritual beliefs lie. Towards the end of her son's first year, Lamott is forced to face the loss of someone close to her, and the juxtaposition of this sadness with her joy over her growing son wraps up the journal with excruciating poignancy.
Anne Lamott is a delightfully good writer. She experiences everything deeply and writes it all in a most unreserved, charming and clever way. Her book made me wish I could invite her over for dinner so that we could trade stories and admire our kids together.
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