![]() Corrigan says shes not preaching just to the choir. ![]() It will prove to be further evidence that, as "The Christian Science Monitor" has written, "Everybody loves Anne Lamott. Maureen Corrigan says Anne Lamotts Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith continues her meditations on spirituality with a series of short essays. 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 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. I enjoy reading Anne Lamotts contemplative and erudite musings on faith and life in the 21st century. ![]() The world is a more dangerous place than it was when Lamott's "Traveling Mercies" was published five years ago. ![]() As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. 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. 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. ![]()
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