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Written & audio book narrated by Anne Lamott - Unabridged Nonfiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 5.5 hours

Publisher, Penguin Audio (April 2007)

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"Lots of people love Anne Lamott, because she's funny and she tells the truth, and truth and laughter are two things we need more of." —The New York Times Book Review

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 emotional 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 an 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 scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark."

In Grace (Eventually), Lamott describes how she copes. These challenges seem alternately inconsequential and insurmountable—the anger engendered by an obstinate carpet salesman or president; the engulfing envy at a 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.

About the Author: The bestselling author of Plan B, Traveling Mercies, and Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. A former columnist for Salon magazine, she lives near San Francisco.