![]() In the prelude, Anne Lamott writes about the individual ways in which people pray: "Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence" (p.4).A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California. Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.Īnne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Help, Thanks, Wow, Some Assembly Required, Grace (Eventually), Plan B, and several others. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas. It is these three prayers - asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us - that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. ![]() And in her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals. Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error. ![]()
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