In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life: grandmotherhood.
Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life.
In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam-about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions-struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work, as they both forge new relationships with Jax's mother, who has her own ideas about how to raise a child. Lamott writes about the complex feelings that Jax fosters in her, recalling her own experiences with Sam when she was a single mother.
Over the course of the year, the rhythms of life, death, family, and friends unfold in surprising and joyful ways.
By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family-as this book will change everyone who reads it.
Tuesday, March 27 at 7:30 pm at our Historic Lodo Store:
Anne Lamott returns to Tattered Cover with her latest book Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son (Riverhead), the story of a new and unexpected chapter of her life: grandmotherhood. Ms. Lamott, a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is the author of several New York Times nonfiction bestsellers Bird by Bird, Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies and Operating Instructions, as well as seven novels, including Imperfect Birds, Rosie and Crooked Little Heart.
Free numbered tickets for a good seat and a place in line for the signing will be handed out at 6:30 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the booksigning is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only.
Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life.
In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam-about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions-struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work, as they both forge new relationships with Jax's mother, who has her own ideas about how to raise a child. Lamott writes about the complex feelings that Jax fosters in her, recalling her own experiences with Sam when she was a single mother.
Over the course of the year, the rhythms of life, death, family, and friends unfold in surprising and joyful ways.
By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family-as this book will change everyone who reads it.
Tuesday, March 27 at 7:30 pm at our Historic Lodo Store:
Anne Lamott returns to Tattered Cover with her latest book Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son (Riverhead), the story of a new and unexpected chapter of her life: grandmotherhood. Ms. Lamott, a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is the author of several New York Times nonfiction bestsellers Bird by Bird, Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies and Operating Instructions, as well as seven novels, including Imperfect Birds, Rosie and Crooked Little Heart.
Free numbered tickets for a good seat and a place in line for the signing will be handed out at 6:30 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the booksigning is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only.
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