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Anne Lamott is the author of twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Help, Thanks, Wow; Dusk, Night, Dawn; Traveling Mercies; and Bird by Bird, as well as seven novels. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California with her family.
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Anne Lamott freely admits that before she said
"Yes" to Jesus, her life was a mess. In some ways it still is.
Her pets keep getting sick and dying. Her home office, where
she has just packed up the manuscript of her latest novel -- a two-year project
-- and mailed it off to her publisher, looks "kind of like a rummage
sale." She is not sure where she stashed the curriculum for the
confirmation class she is organizing for her 12-year-old son, Sam, and two other
young people in the 100-member Presbyterian church where she is an elder.
"I have it in the car, I think," she says, adding ruefully,
"That's usually my battle cry -- I have it in the car, I think."
Standing in the back doorway of her cottage nestled among other smallish-size
houses on a steep hillside in the San Francisco Bay-area town of Fairfax,
California, Lamott greets Saturday afternoon visitors with a plaintive request
for help. Her pet kitten died recently, and now Boo-Boots, her 16-year-old cat,
is dying of leukemia and kidney failure. The cat needs an injection, and
is lying on a towel on an ironing board in the bedroom.
"Do any of you have medical training?" Lamott asks the photographer
and two journalists she is meeting for the first time. Of...
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