"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune
From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring
guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives.
In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that
many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had
as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As
bad newspiles up--from climate crises to daily assaults on civility--how
can we cope? Where, she asks, "do we start to get our world and joy and
hope and our faith in life itself back . . . with our sore feet, hearing
loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?"
We begin, Lamott says, by accepting our flaws and embracing our
humanity.
Drawing from her own experiences, Lamott shows us the intimate and human
ways we can adopt to move through life's dark places and toward the
light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us.
As she does in Help, Thanks, Wow and her other bestselling books,
Lamott explores the thorny issues of life and faith by breaking them
down into manageable, human-sized questions for readers to ponder, in
the process showing us how we can amplify life's small moments of joy by
staying open to love and connection. As Lamott notes in Dusk, Night,
Dawn, "I got Medicare three days before I got hitched, which sounds
like something an old person might do, which does not describe adorably
ageless me." Marrying for the first time with a grown son and a
grandson, Lamott explains that finding happiness with a partner isn't a
function of age or beauty but of outlook and perspective.
Full of the honesty, humor, and humanity that have made Lamott beloved
by millions of readers, Dusk, Night, Dawn is classic Anne
Lamott--thoughtful and comic, warm and wise--and further proof that
Lamott truly speaks to the better angels in all of us.
