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Blue Shoe

by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)

3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 · rating details · 4,715 ratings · 459 reviews

The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies.

Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and she has a...more

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Published September 2nd 2003 by Riverhead Trade (first published September 30th 2002)

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Mar 23, 2007 Barb rated it 1 of 5 stars

I wanted to like this book. It seems as though the author didn't herself have kids or else just didn't get it, because every part that had to do with the woman and her children seemed so off the reservation for me it just made the whole story completely unbelievable and contrived. Also the whole religion thing was not entirely consistent either with the woman's behavior or attitudes towards others, like she went to church with earphones on.

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Feb 18, 2008 Stephanie rated it 2 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Her nonfiction is better.

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Single mom Mattie has moved into her family’s old home with her kids Ella and Harry. She grew up here with father Alfred, now dead; mother Isa; and brother Al, now married to Katherine. She makes improvements on the house and property which bring her into contact with Daniel, who worked one day for a pest control company. Mattie and Daniel become best friends, attending church together, to the dismay of Daniel’s beautiful wife, Pauline. Mattie is secretly in love...more Her nonfiction is better.

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Single mom Mattie has moved into her family’s old home with her kids Ella and Harry. She grew up here with father Alfred, now dead; mother Isa; and brother Al, now married to Katherine. She makes improvements on the house and property which bring her into contact with Daniel, who worked one day for a pest control company. Mattie and Daniel become best friends, attending church together, to the dismay of Daniel’s beautiful wife, Pauline. Mattie is secretly in love with Daniel all along.

Nickie is Mattie’s ex-husband. He remarries the fake, but beautiful Lee. They have two children together, which continually hurts Mattie. Mattie continues to sleep with Nickie now and then, an old habit for them both.

Mattie’s closest girlfriend, Angela, moved away to live with her partner, Julie. Mattie misses her terribly.

Isa was once a well-known social activist; now, she’s aging. In agonizing stages, Isa is moved into a nursing home. First, she lives in a retirement community, then gains a nurse who stops by. Next door is Lewis, a man who becomes Isa’s best friend. Lewis watches Isa gradually lose the ability to care for herself. Isa, in her frail, but honest state, begins to say bad things about Alfred. Mattie vacillates between utter frustration and compassion for Isa.

Then, Mattie finds mysterious artifacts in the glove compartment of her dad’s old car, a blue shoe and a tool with blue paint. The shoe becomes an amulet that is passed between herself and Daniel when times are rough.

Mattie is plunged into panic about her father and begins to poke around. She learns that her father, as a child, was sexually abused by a neighbour. Then, while married, he had an affair with a (then) young girl, Abby Gran. They conceived a son, Noah.. Mattie tries to resolve the difficult history by meeting Abby, a present-day recluse, living in poverty.

Much about her father is learned by contacts made through William Allen, a man she begins to date. William’s father, Ned, owns an old store and remembers the old days. She learns that Noah still lives in the town, as the librarian. She and her brother make contact. The little shoe ends up being one of Noah’s childhood treasures.

Mattie and William break it off. Daniel and Pauline have troubles, and Daniel comes to stay with Mattie. Mattie and Daniel end up easing gently into a relationship. (less)

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Nov 27, 2007 Angela Houk rated it 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book. I moved through it, riding the emotional ebbs & tides it's characters created, filled with sorrow & erupting with laughter. It was hauntingly familiar. As I read it kept bringing back moments of Anne Lamott's own life as if excerpts from her memoirs in new flesh. As with Anne's writing the truth comes to you frankly and you take it as it is. That's how these character's lives are laid bare, in all their shame & all their joy, they are made awkwardly & endeari...more

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Nov 03, 2008 Jeff rated it 2 of 5 stars

Oh my, oh my, oh my! I really don't know what to say about this book except ... oh my, oh my, oh my!

Anne Lamott is such an incredibly talented and honest writer, but this is a big unwieldy mess of a book. There are little gems in the writing, in the characterizations, and in the telling of this novel, which saves it, for me, from an "I hated it" rating. The problem is that it tackles too many storylines and ultimately doesn't do any of them justice. In the laundry list of conflicting narratives,...more

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Feb 19, 2013 Jon rated it 1 of 5 stars

I was very disappointed in this novel, since I thoroughly enjoyed the author's Traveling Mercies and had been looking forward to this. Lamott has created a character essentially like herself only more neurotic and less funny. She then provided her with enough of a story for 40 or 50 pages and stretched it to a 320 page novel. It went on and on, circling the same old problems, only inching forward occasionally. The heroine made incredibly stupid choices and whined when the results were not happy...more

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Apr 20, 2011 Carrie Crockett rated it 3 of 5 stars

Well . . . for me this was fine although not necessarily my search image of a good time. Lamott is obviously a fabulous writer, and what I liked the most about this novel was its wordsmithery. Lamott generously allows us to witness ways in which huge, detailed, believable murals of character can be affixed to the walls of our imaginations using very few (though apt) words. (I revere "Bird by Bird," and have now witnessed the application of the skills behind its writing!) What I didn't love about...more

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Sep 09, 2010 Julia rated it 1 of 5 stars

This book will not be taking space on my book shelves! I have heard good reviews on Anne Lamott's "Traveling Mercies" which is about her faith. So maybe she writes good non-fiction. This book is a novel and I don't think it is written very well. It just seems like a lot of drival to me. None of the characters are likeable. The main character, Mattie, is a recently divorced woman with 2 children. But she herself is extremely immature and not too bright. But I don't think this is the intent of the...more

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Jun 23, 2010 Knucklefish rated it 5 of 5 stars

This novel was written eighteen years (wow!) after Joe Jones, which becomes apparent when I look at the maturation in Lamott's prose style. This novel relies less on reference (although I loved her use of it in Joe Jones) and had a vaguely more traditional format. This was not a negative quality since the same Free spirit is present in all her work. Her style remained fragmented, a collection of moments that create a true portrait of life.

Again the main character gathers around her a makeshift f...more

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Mar 08, 2010 Sandy D. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: parenting, united-states

Anne Lamott is a fabulous, amazingly creative writer, but aside from "Operating Instructions" I just can't get into her books. The characters start annoying me, and I don't like too much contemplation about Jesus.

However, this was my book club's choice for this month, so I plodded on and finished it. I'm glad I did, actually.

This is the story of a middle-aged divorced woman, who balances caring for her kids and dealing with ex-husband with financial struggles, a domineering but aging mother, and...more

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Feb 16, 2010 Michelle rated it 1 of 5 stars

I bought this book to read with my book club. I probably would not have chosen it on my own.

This is the first book by Anne Lamott I read - or I should say ATTEMPTED to read. And it will be my last. I absolutely hated this book. I'm an avid reader, and I can not remember the last time I started a book and didn't finish it. Normally, I feel compelled to read a book to the end, even if I don't like it, thinking there must be something redeeming about it. I kept pushing myself to finish this one, bu...more

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May 24, 2009 Kristi rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. hmmm. My first Lamott book. Maybe Ouch, is most what i feel, like picking a scab, you've got to do it even though you know it hurts.

the book was pretty painful, how people can close their eyes to so much just to get by. How sad it is when childhoods are ripped apart. Ella's biting her finger nails was really touchingly perceptive to me. How hard it is to care for aging parents, A little COH ish in the convictiong that you must, but the parts of you that want to punish and run away.

The writing w...more

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Apr 03, 2009 Sharlene rated it 2 of 5 stars

Many times while reading this book I asked myself why I didn't just stop and start something I might like better. As it was recommended by a friend, I remained hopeful that there would be some redeeming value to the story. Please--at least give me protagonist that exemplifies some values and good judgment or at least learns something in the end. Lamott's lead character of choice starts right off with sleeping back and forth with her ex-husband (who is in a relationship with a pregnant girlfriend...more

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Dec 30, 2008 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

"Hurt people hurt other people. That's the way it works."
- Blue Shoe

Anne Lamott is one of my favorite writers, but until this book I had never read any of her fiction. I first discovered Anne Lamott when my first daughter was born. Operating Instructions is a fabulous book. It is her funny, honest, sad, and optimistic account of her first year as a mother. She is a single mother, but her experiences of being totally in love and totally in over her head are universal.

A few years later, I read Tra...more "Hurt people hurt other people. That's the way it works."
- Blue Shoe

Anne Lamott is one of my favorite writers, but until this book I had never read any of her fiction. I first discovered Anne Lamott when my first daughter was born. Operating Instructions is a fabulous book. It is her funny, honest, sad, and optimistic account of her first year as a mother. She is a single mother, but her experiences of being totally in love and totally in over her head are universal.

A few years later, I read Traveling Mercies, a collection of essays in which Lamott shares her trek out of alcoholism and into Jesus. Again, she keeps it real, irreverent and funny even as she describes hitting bottom. To label Lamott a Christian writer would be to miss the mark (and probably disappoint or irritate a few Christian readers) because she doesn't have a Christian agenda, she simply shares her experiences and her faith. I loved it.

Last year, I read Bird by Bird, which is a book about writing. Again, her wonderfully funny self just shines through in this great book. It's a worthwhile book whether or not you are an inspiring writer.

So, The Blue Shoe. It is a wonderfully funny and believable book. It chronicles the years following Mattie Ryder's divorce. You see Mattie struggling to juggle her children, her rapidly aging mother, her ex-husband, her relationships, and her father's secrets. Her children are damaged by the breakup of their home, and so is Mattie, but she does the best she can.

Having read Lamott's non-fiction, there is much of Anne herself in this book. It was refreshing to see Mattie rely on her faith and her church. She prays to Jesus to help her daughter who is slowly gnawing away her fingers (through the nails), to give her patience when her son acts up, when she falls in love with the wrong man. And, it doesn't come off as preachy, just real.

"The crying will wash it out," she said, pulling him into her lap. He tore at his eye, rubbed hard, whimpered, and she cooed and patted him with mounting hostility... What would Jesus do? Roll his eyes and growl softly, as she was doing? She pictured Jesus and the men He lived with, whiny bachelors all - "Can I be first?" "What about me, Lord" - and saw Him sigh and head back up the mountain. Where could she go?

Her child sobbed in her arms, and she held him. Boy, she thought, when Jesus said we must become as little children to enter the kingdom of heaven, He was definitely not referring to Harry. Maybe He had been misquoted. Maybe he did not say you must be like little children, but that you should eat the little children - with a little butter and garlic.
-The Blue Shoe

At the beginning of the book, Mattie keeps thinking of her father, wishing he were still alive. If she could lean on him, she knows it would give her the strength she needs to keep things together. As the book progresses, she and her brother start a little detective work to figure out some questions about her father, and the answers are not what she expected.(less)

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Feb 16, 2009 Hawley rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is book was exactly what I was hoping for and more. It was a thoroughly enjoyable read - utterly lifelike in its peculiarities, and diverse, believable characters. It endears you to the main character and is full of unexpected turns. I found that I wasn't thinking or predicting what would come up - and even if I had, I would have been off - because it flows so easily.

Lamott writes with such a great humor - a blend of frankness, sincerity and realism. You can really believe the characters a...more

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May 03, 2011 Soma rated it 4 of 5 stars

Amazing book so far.
Great quote: "when God is going to do something wonderful, it starts with something hard, and when God is going to do something exquisite, He or She starts with an impossibility."

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Aug 09, 2009 Alissa rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone who's dealing with an older parent

Sometimes I love Anne Lamott more than others. I gotta testify that I'm uneasy with religion in general, and my uneasiness with Lamott's writing is directly in proportion to her ease with Christianity, which seems to be increasing over the years.

However. When I first read this book--about a woman raising her two kids and her mom, who has dementia (which is what Lamott's mother had)--I kinda hated the characters. The kids are especially galling. But I've been kind of stressed out, and when I'm st...more

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May 22, 2012 Karolyn Sherwood rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review surprises even me. I expected to LOVE this book, based on several different reasons (I loved Bird by Bird, and several of my trusted friends love Lamott's work). But I didn't. However, I think it says more about "Hollywood" and "commercialism" than it does about Anne Lamott.

Ms. Lamott's characters are atypical. In addition, they are atypically honest.

In today's world, characters (books, movies, TV) are generally beautiful people who have solvable problems. The characters in Blue Sh...more

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Jul 01, 2009 Sibyl rated it 4 of 5 stars

Two friends really love Anne Lamott's writings so i decided to check her out. Interesting that the reviews run from one to five stars. I couldn't put it down. Her use of language sometimes is piercing: "topiary soul" sticks in my mind. Sometimes I had to think carefully about who was married or related to whom. Lamott certainly does not shy away from ripe sexual themes; I really did not relate to her post-marital sexual relationship with her ex-husband, even after he remarried. But the exasperat...more

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Dec 12, 2012 Jinni Pike rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2012

Blue Shoe was exactly OK. While there are some very lovely passages and I occasionally found myself pulled in to the plot, on the whole the book failed to capture my interest or elicit sympathy from me. The lead character Mattie changes moods so often it's hard to follow or relate to her. One second she's praying to Jesus and the next thinking about pouring Drano on top of her son's iguana. I understand this is a story about a woman in the midst of a crisis (or many, though each very "first worl...more

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Sep 15, 2010 Kathy rated it 1 of 5 stars

Okay, "didn't like it" is as bad as Goodreads gets, but believe me, I looked for a "hated it" button. I really HATED it! Mattie, the main character, is awful - self obsessed, but lacking any self awareness. A terrible friend, an awful mother, a lousy daughter - Mattie runs the gamut. Constantly praying (but virtually always just for herself - please, please, God, let my friend's husband leave her for me, etc.) and nearly constantly whining, Mattie is the most selfish character I have seen in qui...more

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Jul 23, 2010 Nancy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, read-in-2010

I really enjoyed this book, the first Anne Lamott fiction that I've read. It was funny, quirky, yet I could relate to some of what Mattie, the main character is going through in her life. Wow, she had it all going on - a divorce, young children, with some issues, an aging mother, a deceased, some-what idolized father with a secret, an aging, failing mother, a crush (or more) on a married man! Mattie also has an abiding faith and an active church life, along with a supportive brother and best fri...more

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Sep 11, 2009 Djrmel rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, fiction, z2009-read

Having recommended Lamott's Bird by Bird Some Instructions on Writing and Life to just about every person I've ever spoken with about writing, I realized it might be time to read some of her fiction. How did I know that she wasn't a case of "those that can't do, teach"? The problem with having read her writing book so many times is that I can see her tools and techniques in her novel when I should be falling into the world she's created. The book was more of a practicum than the literary escape...more

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Feb 15, 2013 Peggy Bonnington rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Peggy by: Pat Arendt & BBC

Shelves: bbc-book-club, family-dynamics, to-read-again

I'm having trouble rating this book - which I did LIKE - and definitely had a hard time putting down after a while; but still I can't say I just absolutely LOVED it! Probably 3.5 stars would work for me if such were possible.

I think the method of delivery is what doesn't quite work for me: a sort of ball rolling downhill progression from day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year. I still can't quite decide if it's brilliant or bothersome! It's not like things didn't happen along th...more

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May 14, 2009 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone with a family

I really enjoy Anne Lamott. Her writing makes me laugh out loud one moment and brings tears to my eyes at the next. This is the story of Mattie, recently divorced but still occasionally sleeping with her ex-husband, trying to love her mother as she ages and begins to struggle with dementia, trying to raise her children with grace even as they drive her crazy, trying to reconcile her love for her now deceased father with the incredibly bad choices he made. Mattie's actions aren't always believabl...more

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Jan 22, 2013 Lauren rated it 1 of 5 stars

I wanted to like this book. I really did. I have read Anne Lamott's books in the past and I now think she is a better non-fiction writer than fiction writer. Why? Because this book just wasn't believable.

There were too many plots that were not fully developed and that dealt with intense topics like sexual abuse, elder care, dementia (not to mention a running thread of adultery). For example, Lamott introduces a plot where the main character Mattie meets with her father's ex-lover, who reveals t...more I wanted to like this book. I really did. I have read Anne Lamott's books in the past and I now think she is a better non-fiction writer than fiction writer. Why? Because this book just wasn't believable.

There were too many plots that were not fully developed and that dealt with intense topics like sexual abuse, elder care, dementia (not to mention a running thread of adultery). For example, Lamott introduces a plot where the main character Mattie meets with her father's ex-lover, who reveals that her father was sexually abused as a child. You would turn the page and then she would go into excruciatingly painful detail about the scales of her son's new pet iguana and never revisit the fact that she just dropped a bomb on the reader about her father being sexually abused!

At that point, no one cares about the iguana--how many scales he has and how much he shits in his cage.

Her plots are so unrealistic it was pathetic. The main plot (well one of them, if you look past Mattie's own pathetic search for love in "all the wrong places"--and yes, I used that cliche...) was the fact that her father not only cheated on her mother for most of her childhood, he then cheated on his mistress and fathered a child with Mattie's friend at the time (and they were fourteen). Ok--that alone is a lot to wrap your head around. But instead of developing those plots, she decides to bring the characters into present day and have them interact like nothing happened....because "God" would have wanted it that way.

Seriously?

Then, the main character of Mattie starts sleeping with her ex and finally finds true "love" with her handyman after she wrecks his marriage. But it's all ok--because Lamott spends chapters writing about how they all went to church and sung hymns and the world is now right. Oh--and did I mention that her elderly mother (whom she hates and has no pity for, which makes you hate the character even more) is put in a home and her neighbor at the home is now her husband's longtime lover?

It's all too much. Throw in the main character's whines and talks with "God" and you want to throw the book against the wall.

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Jan 23, 2012 Sara Davis rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is an interesting book for me to rate. I'm not a fan of the main character's decisions, but the situations that life deals to her are so...real. It's lame to use someone else's review of a book on my own review of the same book, but I'm going to do it anyway:
"[Anne Lamott's] real genius lies in capturing the ineffable, describing not perfect moments but imperfect ones...perfectly."
Life is unfair and things happen and you get hurt, and you make lots of mistakes (hopefully not ones quite as b...more

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Jun 11, 2008 Holly Celeste rated it 3 of 5 stars

It doesn't speak so well of this book that I was about 1/3 of the way into it when I remembered I'd read it before. But it was at least interesting enough that I went ahead and finished it again. Good story, good characters, good descriptions, and Ann Lamott's subtle humor. I'm not sure exactly what it's missing to be great, but there's something. Still, a nice book.

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Apr 16, 2009 Norma rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2009

Lamott’s protagonist, Mattie Ryder, a broken disillusioned divorcee and the mother of two young children deals with life and temptations in a manner which devout Christians rarely admit.

This splendid Novel moves slowly through Mattie's post-divorce years and follows her gradual emotional recovery.

The plot wanders, rambles, and never really fully develops yet, the novel is satisfying despite the all the lose endings; perhaps this is due to Lamott’s ability to develop such great characters.

Matt...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Jolie rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: disappointing

This is the kind of book that makes you think the publisher's assistant mistakenly sent a draft to the printer rather than the final manuscript. The characters are boring, the story just trundles along, there are random religious references, descriptions of some characters are clear, others not so, and the 'blue shoe' that the title refers to is a benign child's toy which plays an inexplicable role in the main character's psyche. The book reminded me of a writing assignment that someone would bl...more

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May 08, 2013 Jennifer Lane rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: book-club, did-not-finish, dysfunctional-family-fun, psychology

I wanted to like this book club selection but I found it too depressing and boring to finish. Here are a few comments from what I did read.

Mattie Ryder is recently divorced with two young children. Somehow she makes a living from modeling size 12 clothing for Sears? She's depressed from her divorce, and ruminates about her family, her children, and her friends. She sleepwalks through life, and the story plods along without much happening. When she finds a little blue shoe her father owned, the o...more I wanted to like this book club selection but I found it too depressing and boring to finish. Here are a few comments from what I did read.

Mattie Ryder is recently divorced with two young children. Somehow she makes a living from modeling size 12 clothing for Sears? She's depressed from her divorce, and ruminates about her family, her children, and her friends. She sleepwalks through life, and the story plods along without much happening. When she finds a little blue shoe her father owned, the object becomes a small symbol of hope for her, bringing her comfort in her down time.

I did enjoy the symbolism of the shoe. Here Maddie reflects:

She'd read somewhere that after World War II ended in Europe, lost children wandered around until they were gathered in campus run by the Allies. There they were fed and cared for while relatives were located or new families found who could take them in. In one camp it was discovered that none of the children was sleeping well. Their nerves were shot, the memories fresh and haunting. Then a social worker determined that if the children were each given a piece of bread to hold at night, they could fall asleep. This was not bread to eat--there was plenty of that when the children were hungry. No, this piece of bread was just to hold on to, to reassure the children through the night that they were safe now, that there would be bread to eat in the morning.

That is a precious story backed by object relations theory. As a psychologist, I sometimes give my clients stuffed animals or other objects to hang onto and to remember our work together, to help remind them of coping skills.

I also liked Angela, Mattie's blunt friend:

"Honey," Angela replied, "you don't know yourself well enough right now to commit suicide. So it would be considered a homicide."

But overall I didn't care much for the plot or the characters. Mattie isn't very likable, nor is her attraction to a married man named Lewis. The physical description of Lewis was hardly appealing to me. Too bad this one wasn't for me!(less)

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Anne Lamott is an author of several novels and works of non-fiction. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her non-fiction works are largely autobiographical, with strong doses of self-deprecating humor and covering such subjects as alcoholism, single motherhood, and Christianity. She appeals to her fans because of her sense of humor, her deeply felt insights, and her outspoken views on topics such...more

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