Anne, I love you and your voice in your non-fiction works.stick with that, please! :) In fact she read 3 of Lamott's fiction works, this title being one of those three, and told me to give it up because Lamott's fiction works weren't worthe the time. A friend of mine agrees with me about Lamott's fiction. It lacks everything that I love about Anne Lamott as an author.

Reading the 36 pages I felt like yelling, 'Anne! Where is your voice? Where are you?' Her non-fiction is so funny and real and so.great. I really think Lamott should stick to non-fiction. It pained me because, like I said, I love Lamott's non-fiction. I felt like I was wasting my life and time by reading any more of this book. The yawns it gave me - it was the most dull story I have read in a long long long time. The lack of plot - there was NO plot at 36 pages in which tells me there isn't going to be one at all. What did I hate? The overuse of descriptive words - I felt like I was reading the Thesarus that had some words written in between the descriptives. Truthfully I don't think I should even be giving the book 1 star since I only got 36 pages in and couldn't stand it. I adore Anne Lamott and her non-fiction but I can't stand her fiction. I feel horrible about it but I can't do it. I have read 36 pages and I cannot stand to read one more word. I actually can't say I have read this book. And now Rosie finds that her athletic gifts, once a source of triumph and escape, place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.Ĭrooked Little Heart asks big questions in intimate ways: What keeps a family together? What are the small heartbreaks that tear at the fabric of our lives? What happens to grief when it goes underground? And what road must we walk with our flawed and crooked hearts?īrilliantly written, inhabited by superbly realized characters, funny and human and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the peak of her considerable powers.

Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with his own demons. Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis. With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott presents an exuberant novel about a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.

Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott