The San Francisco Chronicle writes, "Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath."
I recently stumbled upon a brilliant writer whose words made me feel watched. That is to say, I felt as if she had been hiding in my closet, viewing me through a narrow crack. The old saying that we are more alike than we are different rang true for me in the pages of Lamott’s writing.
Her style is fresh and unlike anything I’ve read before. She brings inspiration by the very fact that she doesn’t use the common cliches heard in Christian circles. It’s a language all her own yet made familiar and realized through one’s own thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
I found myself laughing and crying at the same time (though, if you know me this isn’t all that uncommon). Anne speaks on everything from motherhood to social and political views. Her ideas are thought provoking and she gave me a space within myself, to look at, and ask questions about views I hadn’t previously considered.
