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Sep 30, 2002 blue shoe anne lamott is one of my favorite writers, but until this book i had never read any of her fiction. Born in san francisco, anne lamott is the author of five novels and three works of nonfiction, and the recipient of a guggenheim fellowship. Gritty, stark, and humorous, she catches the reader by surprise when she points her pen heavenward anne lamott is the patron saint of struggling sinners, a woman who loves god enough to be divinely human. Bird by bird some instructions on writing and life also available in format docx and mobi. The main characters of this language, writing story are. Blue shoe attempts to glorify the extremely ordinary life of an extremely ordinary character. This week were giving away one set of three of her novels. Then a social worker determined that if the children were each given a piece of bread to hold at night, they could fall asleep.
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