Small Victories
Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
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The New York Times bestseller from the author of Help, Thanks, Wow, Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Dusk, Night, Dawn. Lamott's long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace.
Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It’s an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us—our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found.
Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.
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Lamott (Help, Thanks, Wow) returns with an essay collection that tackles tough subjects with sensitive and unblinking honesty. Her subject matter is often dark, deriving from the travails of aging and mortality that Lamott, who is now 60, has observed in recent years. Most of the essays involve people Lamott knows who are either dead or suffering from a terminal disease: her best friend who had cancer; her friends' two-year-old daughter with cystic fibrosis; her mother with Alzheimer's, to name a few. But even when considering these hardships, Lamott remains optimistic. Every essay offers a revelation, often tied to her Christian faith. Sometimes she drifts toward clich s, as when she learns, on a hike with a sick friend, that "getting found almost always means being lost for a while." At her best, Lamott is refreshingly frank, admitting that she doesn't want a passionate relationship as much as she wants "someone to text all day and watch TV with." She also has the rare ability to weave bracing humor seamlessly with earnest, Christian faith, observing, "Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything" in an essay about teaching prisoners how to tell their stories. But the book's best insights are subtle, like the thought, on a beach vacation, that heaven must be like snorkeling: "dreamy, soft, bright, quiet."
