The Chicago Tribune interviews Anne Lamott about her novel Imperfect Birds

Anne Lamott discusses novel-writing versus essay-writing with the Chicago Tribune and explains why her characters in Imperfect Birds are "my favorite people I've ever worked with." More...

Anne Lamott for Salon on Why She Hates Mother's Day

Although Anne Lamott has loved being a mother, she has never made her son Sam celebrate Mother's Day.  Find out why in her most recent piece for Salon.

Bookslut on Anne Lamott’s “endearing” Imperfect Birds

“Imperfect Birds is a carefully rendered story of a family in crisis. Lamott’s writing is suffused by her trademark candor and ability to find significance in the mundane details of her protagonists’ lives that make them relevant to her readers.” more…

Anne Lamott on The Big Think

Anne Lamott Talks Candidly with Salon

Anne Lamott fesses up to Salon about the qualities she shares with her characters, the trials of parenting a teenager, the joys of flying in new underpants, and her “elegant” newest novel Imperfect Birds.

The New York Times Book Review calls Anne Lamott's Imperfect Birds "pitch perfect."

"Powerful and painfully honest…Throughout this admirable novel, Lamott’s observations are pitch perfect — likably, even brutally unsentimental, not just about parental hopes and anxieties but about the particular and touching fragility of simply being a teenager." more...

NPR Praises Anne Lamott’s Imperfect Birds: It's a book that will “provide solace to many.”

NPR: “Reading Lamott's latest installment about her long-running mother-daughter pair, Elizabeth and Rosie Ferguson, as they grapple with multiple A-list issues—addiction, authority, autonomy and approval—may take some readers back where they don't wish to go. But this issue-driven novel will no doubt provide solace to many more…Imperfect Birds highlights the anxiety of parenthood in 'a world aquiver with menace,' as Lamott put it in Crooked Little Heart." Plus, The Seattle Times says, "Imperfect Birds is about more than family dynamics and a problem kid…Lamott is doing what she does so well, teaching us about survival and charting the very rough road to redemption."

Dallas Morning News on Anne Lamott’s “brilliantly witty” Imperfect Birds

“Brilliantly witty, powerfully emotional fiction that has the power to change how readers think…Anne Lamott is mostly known as a best-selling writer of nonfiction…but Lamott's fiction also deserves keeper status among any astute reader's collection.” more...

The Washington Post Loves Anne Lamott’s Imperfect Birds, which “implicitly offers the kind of advice that many parents need to hear.”

“Not only is it a moving and perceptive portrayal of raising a substance-abusing teenager, but it implicitly offers the kind of advice that many parents need to hear. One hopes that concerned friends and school counselors will begin passing Imperfect Birds to beleaguered moms and dads just as they've long given copies of Operating Instructions to expectant parents…This is a mature, thoughtful novel about an all-too-common family crisis, and in typical Lamott fashion, it doesn't ignore the pain or exalt in despair. The salvation she offers in these pages is hard-won.” more...

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Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies, and Operating Instructions, as well as several novels, including Rosie and Crooked Little Heart. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she lives in Northern California.

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