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Anne Lamott · 1993
A candid, humorous journal documenting Anne Lamott's experience of pregnancy and her son's first year of life, blending honest reflection on motherhood with poetic prose and dark humor.
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What this book knows
Single motherhood, sobriety, and friendship remake a woman in real time, one exhausted journal entry at a time.
faith-and-doubt
I don't understand why he always has to be so goddamn weird about his plans. I would prefer that he be more like Jeeves—God as cosmic butler.
OI-RC-057If I went to a liquor store and put money on the counter for whiskey, I might as well put Sam on the counter too.
OI-RC-041belonging
What favor would you want that you felt too exhausted to do by yourself and too ashamed to ask anyone else to help you with?
OIJ-RC-045I lay there on the futon being teary and ragged but also unbelievably hospitable, while Emmy walked my colicky baby.
OIJ-RC-023grief
I felt such a deep sadness that my father didn't get to know Sam. The last Christmas my dad was alive, his brain didn't work so well anymore.
OIJ-RC-077The exhaustion and constant fear about Pammy make me like some little animal who lives on the ocean floor, ink-jetting itself.
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