From the Publisher
The world, community, the family, the human heart: these are the beautiful and complicated arenas in which our lives unfold. Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness—sometimes all at once.
Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotion muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, moments of insight, courage, or buoyancy. In other words, grace.
Anne Lamott knows and lives by this belief, most of the time. In Grace (Eventually), her brilliant new collection, she recounts the missteps, detours, and roadblocks in her walk of faith.
It's been and erratic journey, and some days go better than others. “I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kinds of things,” she writes. “Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace’s arrival. But no, it’s clog and slog and scotch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.”
In Grace(Eventually), Lamott describes how she copes. The challenges seem alternately inconsequential and insurmountable—the anger engendered by an obstinate carpet salesman or president; the engulfing envy at friend’s professional success; the bewilderment at discovering that a child has grown up or that a friend wants to die on his own terms—and they are also universal.
Wise and irreverent, poignant and funny, Grace (Eventually) is a primer in faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully human and alive.
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