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Traveling Mercies
- Some Thoughts on Faith
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From the best-selling author of Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny.
With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, with diatribes, laughter, and tears, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. She shows us the myriad ways in which this sustains and guides her, shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life and exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope.
Whether writing about her family or her dreadlocks, sick children or old friends, the most religious women of her church or the men she's dated, Lamott reveals the hard-won wisdom gathered along her path to connectedness and liberation.
What the critics say
"Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration. [Her] real genius lies in capturing the ineffable, describing not perfect moments, but imperfect ones...perfectly. She is nothing short of miraculous." (The New Yorker)
"[She is] sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise, and alternately cranky and kind." (Seattle Times)
"Lamott writes about subjects that begin with capital letters (Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus). But armed with self-effacing humor and ruthless honesty - call it a lower-case approach to life's Big Questions - she converts potential op-ed biolerplate into enlightenment." (Newsweek)
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- Margaret McCrank
- 2023-05-27
Love This Book!
I first read this book some twenty years ago and just inhaled it, I loved it so much. This audio reading was even better!
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- Daniel V. Beirne
- 2020-11-10
Loved this memoir!
So honest, real, funny, poignant and inspiring. Great narrator as well. Highly recommend. Really great!
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