Dusk Night Dawn
On Revival and Courage
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- 15,99 €
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- 15,99 €
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
How do we get through dark times when we feel like giving in to fear and despair, and when existential dread has convinced us of our smallness?
In this real, resonant book, Anne Lamott uses her own recent marriage as a framework to explore how our lives can be enlarged through renewed commitment to ourselves and those around us. With warmth and wit, she looks at what it means to care for the soul when struggling with fear and dread and to emerge with exuberance, purpose and possibility, with new love for and joy in those around us.
Our lives shouldn't be about what gets us ahead in the game or the demands other make on us. Wise, compassionate and spiritually uplifting, Dusk, Night, Dawn is for anyone looking for Christian hope and encouragement in times of fear and dread. It will leave you restored, and show you how you can care for your soul and live peacefully and exuberantly going forward.
'Chock-full of her trademark wit . . . this is [Lamott's] first book since getting married, so those honest insights about choosing love amid anxiety are sure to shine even brighter.'
Bookpage
'By turns wise, funny, tragic, mystical, visionary, and imaginative . . . Readers new to Lamott are opening themselves to a real treat, as her abilities as a storyteller are in full form.'
Library Journal
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Lamott (Almost Everything) explores the relationships between personal anxieties and larger social concerns in these quiet, often darkly humorous reflections. Citing recent "crushing developments" in UN reports on the effects of climate change and mass extinctions, Lamott wonders how to have faith and take joy in a world on the brink of disaster. "Salvation," she writes, "will be local, grassroots," and manifested through loving acts between individuals. Concentrating on being more intentional and focusing on small changes in one's personal life, she writes, allows hope to grow and to serve as the first step to larger societal changes. Lamott argues that people too often block themselves from love through perfectionism, self-loathing, cowardice, and the fear of being vulnerable with others. She also weighs in on domestic matters, including problems both weighty (alcoholism) and trivial (how one's new spouse does the laundry). To her credit, Lamott turns a pessimistic mindset on its head with the difficult question: "What holds when you and your family are walking toward extinction?" Her answer: kindness, humility, words of love, and stories of when the worst seemed possible, but it turned out okay. Lamott's many fans will enjoy this ode to relishing small things.
