"Anne Lamott is the two-way mirror of our hopes, insecurities, and
cheating hearts, an astute observer of human nature." --Amy Tan, author
of The Joy Luck Club
The celebrated author of Bird by Bird offers a stunningly
evocative novel about a divorcée who returns to her small Northern
California town, where she encounters vivid memories of her eccentric
family and coming-of-age in the 1960s
With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of
dislocating changes that shook the Sixties. Leading us through the wake
of these changes is Nanny Goodman, a girl living in Marin County,
California. A half-adult child among often childish adults, Nanny grows
up with two spectacularly odd parents: a writer father and a mother who
is a constant source of material. As she moves into her adolescence, so,
it seems, does America. While grappling with her own coming-of-age,
Nanny witnesses an entire culture's descent into drugs, the mass exodus
of fathers from her town, and rapid real estate and technological
development that foreshadow a drastically different future.
In All New People, Anne Lamott works a special magic, transforming
failure into forgiveness and illuminating the power of love to redeem
us.
