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I first discovered anne lamott when my first daughter was born. Shes lived through lifetimes of grief, happiness, struggle and triumph. Anne lamott is the author of seven novels including, hard laughter, rosie, joe jones. Lamott infuses this peripatetic story of a womans struggles after a divorce with the same quirky brand of christianity she explored in her wildly popular memoir, traveling mercies 1999. Discuss it in reference to what mattie remembers reading about children of the holocaust page 38.
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Discussion of themes and motifs in anne lamott s traveling mercies. Heart 1997, all new people 2000, and blue shoes 2002. Traveling mercies anne lamott claims to know only two prayers by heart. As always, anne lamott creates characters with whom we can identify, as she explores the depths of human emotion. There, she wrote for the school newspaper, but dropped out after two years and returned to san francisco.
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