When author Anne Lamott found herself expecting her son,
Sam, with the father out of the picture, she decided to go ahead and raise a
child alone. This journal is a record of
the journey of that first year after Sam’s birth, a look back to her rather
checkered past, and a thoughtful meditation on life. In addition to the joys
and trials of new motherhood, she is still mourning her beloved father several
years after his death and her best friend has received a devastating medical
diagnosis. As she says as Sam begins to leave babyhood, “He’s
crawling inexorably away now. He’s crawling toward anticipated pleasures. Soon there will be scheming and manipulation,
a dedication to certain outcomes, to attaining certain things and storing them
for later. I’m trying so hard to learn
to live in the now, to bring my mind back to the present, while Sam is learning
to anticipate and plan, to want things that are far away.” I look forward to her newest book, Some assembly required, published twenty
years later which relates Sam’s son’s first year. 251 pp.
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