Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith [Paperback]

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Anne Lamott admits that she's "ever so slightly more anxious than the average hypochondriac." When faced with a small, irregular mole and a family history of skin cancer, however, she remembers her faith in God and enjoys some peace--despite behaving "a little more like Nathan Lane in The Birdcage than I would have hoped." Author Lamott reads these wonderfully detailed postcards from her meandering journey to faith. With sharp and bittersweet humor, she recounts a past full of bad relationships with men, with food, with drugs, with alcohol, and worst of all, with herself. She battles her demons thanks to the love of her friends and family and her "lurch of faith" to embrace religion, that "puzzling thing inside me that had begun to tug on my sleeve from time to time, trying to get my attention." Inspiring but not dogmatic, Traveling Mercies is a treasure. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --C.B. Delaney--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 275 pages

Publisher: Anchor; Anchor Books ed edition (February 15, 2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0385496095

ISBN-13: 978-0385496094

Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)