“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” -Chicago Tribune
From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives.
In Dusk, Night, Dawn,
Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with.
How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through
the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad newspiles up—from
climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she
asks, “do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in
life itself back . . . with our sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers,
poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?”
We begin, Lamott says, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity.
Drawing
from her own experiences, Lamott shows us the intimate and human ways
we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of
hope that still burns ahead for all of us.
As she does in Help, Thanks, Wow and
her other bestselling books, Lamott explores the thorny issues of life
and faith by breaking them down into manageable, human-sized questions
for readers to ponder, in the process showing us how we can amplify
life's small moments of joy by staying open to love and connection. As
Lamott notes in Dusk, Night, Dawn, “I got Medicare three days
before I got hitched, which sounds like something an old person might
do, which does not describe adorably ageless me.” Marrying for the first
time with a grown son and a grandson, Lamott explains that finding
happiness with a partner isn't a function of age or beauty but of
outlook and perspective.
Full of the honesty, humor, and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers, Dusk, Night, Dawn
is classic Anne Lamott—thoughtful and comic, warm and wise—and further
proof that Lamott truly speaks to the better angels in all of us.
