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Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Lamott, Anne	4-week checkout	Due 04-29-2024

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Blue submitted by Anthany on July 10, 2020, 9:30am Blue shoe

Family Life submitted by sdunav on August 6, 2023, 10:08am 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 unresolved issues about her long-dead father.

The book made a really image-strong (and fairly creepy) start with the descriptions of rats in their house's walls. I did find the plot interesting in the end (while still wanting to smack several of the characters), but it was the gorgeous descriptions that are really going to stick with me.

The iguana - a reluctantly accepted family pet - is the best example. It's either an Aztec statue or a frantically scuttling ribbon-of-sh$t-spewing maniac in its little aquarium. And it's obvious that Lamott has dealt with kids - they are perfectly described, right down to all their neurotic habits and their mom's feelings of love and frustration.