Anne Lamott

A follow-up to the best-selling Plan B examines the ways in which people are caught up by such challenges as work, parenting, and politics, in a collection of essays that describes her struggles with faith in the face of her son's teen years, today's headlines, and an obstinate carpet salesman. 200,000 first printing.

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year is a book by Anne Lamott.

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 …

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and …