Blue Shoe

Praise

“Messy, brave and weirdly lovable…a substantial literary pleasure.”&#151New York Times Book Review

“Moving and funny, fetchingly irreverent and soulful, Blue Shoe is an absolute joy.”&#151Chicago Sun-Times

”Everybody loves Anne Lamott…[she] writes with an emotional shorthand that’s instantly decipherable and funny to anyone who’s had children&#151or parents.”&#151The Christian Science Monitor

“Irresistible…Lamott has created a work full of shaggy, truthful charm.”&#151San Francisco Chronicle

”Glorious…After reading Blue Shoe, you feel as if you had sat on the kitchen floor and talked with the author late into the night about your mothers, your bodies, your lovers, and God. And that, in a nutshell, is the minor miracle of Lamott’s writing.”&#151The Atlanta Journal Constitution

”Philosophical, honest, and poignant, Lamott writes about real life and how it goes on, through good and through bad.”&#151Boston Herald

”The novel’s effect on the reader is profoundly springlike: It is tonic.”&#151Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Anyone who’s ever had a heartache&#151or a family&#151will relate to Anne Lamott’s poignant novels.”&#151Rosie Magazine

“Blue Shoe is a gift you will want to give yourself.”&#151St. Louis Post-Dispatch