Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

by Anne Lamott

Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything

"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun-Times)

In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594482878
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/26/2008
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.18(w) x 7.88(h) x 0.72(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and the forthcoming Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

Hometown:

Fairfax, California

Date of Birth:

1954

Place of Birth:

San Francisco, California

Education:

Attended Goucher College in Maryland before dropping out to write

Table of Contents

Prelude     11
Dance Class
Ski Patrol     27
Wailing Wall     37
Dance Class     49
Bodies
The Muddling Glory of God     61
Dear Old Friend     72
A Field Theory of Beauty     86
In Circulation
Cheese Love     101
At Death's Window     108
The Born     116
Forgivishness
Nudges     125
The Carpet Guy     136
Dandelions     146
Near the Lagoon, 2004     158
Lost and Found
Steinbeck Country     169
Shadows     176
The Last Story of Spring     189
Samwheel
Chirren     201
Samwheel     209
Blink of an Eye     220
Earth School
Bastille Day     237
Mom, Interrupted     249
Junctions     255
Kookaburra     268

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Anne Lamott is...a swearing spiritual pundit who prays for redemption but brags about her offenses. Lamott's latest tell-all is Grace (Eventually): Thoughts of Faith, a searching memoir full of...offbeat spiritual humor. What makes Lamott's writing powerful isn't her unconventional faith. Rather, it's the profound message about God's grace and redemption often lurking underneath all the...brutal honesty." -Chicago Sun-Times "Lamott's self-deprecating stories are refreshingly frank and endearingly fun." -Washington Post

Editorial Reviews

Anne Lamott knows that faith isn't easy: "I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kinds of things," she writes, "that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scotch, on the floor, in silence, in the dark." In this new collection of essays, the author of Plan B grapples with problems of faith as they pop up in unexpected places, including an unpleasant carpet transaction and her changing relationship with her son. As always, Lamott's insightful reflections are infused with candor and her signature self-deprecating wit. A spiritual treasure in any season.

It's the rare author who can write about faith without coming off like a preachy zealot or over-earnest schoolmarm. Lamott's self-deprecating stories are refreshingly frank and endearingly fun.

The Washington Post

There's no one quite like Anne Lamott. ... She manages to suggest that she's your ally, the funny best friend who knows instinctively that you've had these troubles, too. And perhaps that's why readers continue to find something fresh in everything she has to say.

Los Angeles Times

She's a wonderful writer, and very funny ... the imaginative imagery, the telling metaphors, the clever turns of phrase imbued with passion, heart and wit.

San Francisco Chronicle

She observes her world with honed humor-and without a whiff of deceit or concealment. ... This is a Christian even an atheist could still respect in the morning.

The Seattle Times

Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in ... the wonderful Grace (Eventually).

Chicago Sun-Times

Lamott has a knack for describing something that seems paradoxically true and startling, because no one has put it quite the same before.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

In detailing her struggles as a flawed human to embody her Christian faith, Lamott may have found a subject that can inexhaustively fuel her writing for years to come, as it's a perfect conduit for her observational humor.

Rocky Mountain News

These funny, smart, and prayerful essays-to-live-by contain just what readers expect from this nimble and candid writer: the unexpected. ... Like all artists, Lamott can riff inventively on the most commonplace themes.

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