Crooked Little Heart, Anne Lamott
Crooked Little Heart, Anne Lamott
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Crooked Little Heart

Author: Anne Lamott

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman

Unabridged: 12 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 03/19/2019


Synopsis

With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.

The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher.  Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband.  Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.

Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.

About The Author

ANNE LAMOTT is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Almost EverythingHallelujah AnywayHelp, Thanks, WowSmall VictoriesStitchesSome Assembly RequiredGrace (Eventually)Plan BTraveling Mercies; and Operating Instructions. She is also the author of seven novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jackie

I liked discovering that the title originated from a line in a poem by W.H. Auden, which the author quoted on p. 181 O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.' It was late, late in the evening, The lovers they were gone; The cl......more

Goodreads review by Lara

Read it a long time ago...young tennis player and a shadowy figure I liked it then a lot.......more

Goodreads review by Joan

Okay, I should have listened to the reviews. I trusted after reading Bird by Bird that Anne Lamott would write wonderful fiction. Little did I know that her fiction would drag and drag. I couldn't wait to finish this book. If you like tennis (which I do), you'll enjoy the description of play. Otherw......more

Goodreads review by Julian

This book is the sequel to Rosie, and they are two of my mom's favorite novels of all time, so when I read them I couldn't help looking for her in them. I found her, but I also found that I really loved Crooked Little Heart far more than Rosie. Rosie, especially the ending, didn't really push my thi......more

Goodreads review by bob

I love Anne Lamott and was lucky to pick up this autographed copy at a library sale. It's been on my shelf too long....time to dig in. WOW! What an amazing book, yet SO typical of Anne Lamott. Her language use is rich and varied. Her synonyms and similes are always spot on and thought provoking. Nobo......more


Quotes

"Pulses with an emotional generosity that is rare." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Eloquent, detailed, emotionally honest... Lamott deserves praise for telling it like it is." —People

"Crooked Little Heart
... incapacitated me for several days.  I could do little else but move from one reading post to another throughout my house and yard, and follow the continuing story of Rosie Ferguson in the summer of her 13th year.... The writing is threaded with precise imagery, tenderness, and high humor." —L.A. Weekly

"Lamott's descriptive talents are considerable and... consistently evocative. Crooked Little Heart is likely to win [her] the huge and appreciative audience her masterful fiction demands." —Boston Globe