Though the book will appeal to her longtime fans, the essays are marred by observations that are trite or just plain obvious. Mixed in with details of her personal life, including her first marriage (at age 65) to a man who, unlike her, is not a Christian her struggles with alcoholism and the Sunday school classes she teaches near her California home, the book addresses such topics as forgiveness, repentance, climate change, and more. “Where on earth do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back?” In these short essays, similar in style and tone as Almost Everything, Hallelujah Anyway, Small Victories, and the author’s other works of nonfiction, she ventures some answers. “Here we are, older, scared, numb on some days, enraged on others, with even less trust than we had a year ago,” Lamott writes of such challenges as the pandemic and threats to American democracy and to the planet in general. Another helping of pop philosophy from the prolific writer.
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