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Traveling Mercies

Name: Traveling Mercies
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Author: Anne Lamott
ISBN: 9780593150245

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Published on Mar 19, 2019 | 7 Hours 36 Minutes

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Published on Mar 19, 2019 | 7 Hours 36 Minutes

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From the bestselling author of Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise and very funny.

With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, with diatribes, laughter, and tears, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. She shows us the myriad ways in which this sustains and guides her, shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life and exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope.

Whether writing about her family or her dreadlocks, sick children or old friends, the most religious women of her church of the men she’s dated, Lamott reveals the hard-won wisdom gathered along her path to connectedness and liberation.

“Even at her most serious, she never takes herself or her spirituality too seriously. Lamott is a narrator who has relished and soaked up the details of her existence, equally of mirth and devastation, spirit and grief, and spilled them onto her pages.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Life-affirming … Lamott fills her text with remarkable detail and a refreshing sense of humanity that has you guffawing on one page and bawling on the next.” —People

“You’ll love Traveling Mercies for Lamott’s unblinking confrontation with God’s love, and you’ll buy copies for all your friends struggling with faith.” —USA Today

“Exuberant and captivating…. shifts from laugh-out-loud wisecracks to heart-wrenching poignancy. At one point she seems a reincarnation of Erma Bombeck; at others, she could be Annie Dillard or Kathleen Norris.” —Chicago Tribune

“Compares with the witty and moving Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis…. Lamott is a fine writer who combines theology with humor, compassion, and practicality.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Applies passion, wisdom, and intensity to a scorchingly personal look at the road from spiritual apathy to ardent belief…. Traveling Mercies, like Ms. Lamott herself, is a consistent delight.” —Dallas Morning News

“Lamott has developed an entirely new genre of religious writing. Gritty, stark, and humorous, she catches the reader by surprise when she points her pen heavenward…. Anne Lamott [is] the patron saint of struggling sinners, a woman who loves God enough to be divinely human.” —Religion News Service

“Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author

Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott is the author of twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Help, Thanks, Wow; Dusk, Night, Dawn; Traveling Mercies; and Bird by Bird, as well as seven novels. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California with her family.

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