With her son, Sam Lamott, Anne recently co-authored the forthcoming book, Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, which follows both her and Sam’s struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work. She is the author of seven novels including Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, and Crooked Little Heart (the sequel to Rosie), as well as five bestselling books of non-fiction: Operating Instructions, an account of life as a single mother during her son’s first year Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life, a guide to writing and the challenges of a writer’s life Traveling Mercies, a collection of autobiographical essays on faith and Plan B : Further Thoughts on Faith. Described by the New York Times as “a narrator who has relished and soaked up the details of her existence, equally of mirth and devastation, and spilled them onto her pages,” Lamott has written on subjects ranging from alcoholism and single parenting to religion and writer’s block. And now Rosie finds that her athletic gifts, once a source of triumph and escape, place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.Ĭrooked Little Heart asks big questions in intimate ways: What keeps a family together? What are the small heartbreaks that tear at the fabric of our lives? What happens to grief when it goes underground? And what road must we walk with our flawed and crooked hearts?īrilliantly written, inhabited by superbly realized characters, funny and human and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the peak of her considerable powers.Anne Lamott is loved for her ability to write eloquently, gracefully, and often hilariously about complicated subjects. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with his own demons. Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis.
With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott presents an exuberant novel about a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.
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