Somehow Thoughts on Love
Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott is a new release from Penguin, set to be published on April 9, 2024. This 208-page book delves into the transformative power of love, exploring its complexities and the ways it shapes our lives. Lamott reflects on how love can surprise us, challenge our perceptions, and remind us of our shared humanity, emphasizing its role as a guiding force even in difficult times.
In this edition, Lamott examines various dimensions of love, including the unexpected affection for a partner later in life and the complicated love for a child. She also addresses the importance of community and the sustaining love found among individuals facing challenges together. Through her personal experiences, Lamott illustrates how love enlightens, comforts, and energizes, ultimately encouraging readers to believe in a brighter future. This book is a thoughtful exploration of love’s essential role in our lives, presented with Lamott’s characteristic warmth and humor.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2024
“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love
“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks.”
In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. “Love just won’t be pinned down,” she says. “It is in our very atmosphere” and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love.
In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum. She explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens. The sustaining love among a group of sinners, for a community in transition, in the wider world. The lessons she underscores are that love enlightens as it educates, comforts as it energizes, sustains as it surprises.
Somehow is Anne Lamott’s twentieth book, and in it she draws from her own life and experience to delineate the intimate and elemental ways that love buttresses us in the face of despair as it galvanizes us to believe that tomorrow will be better than today. Full of the compassion and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers, Somehow is classic Anne Lamott: funny, warm, and wise.
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