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It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman's life.
It seems no mother of a newborn has ever been more hilarious, more honest, or more touching than Lamott is within these pages. As a single parent she struggles to support her little family by her wits and writing, learning that blessings and losses come together.
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Brent Rasch
reviewed Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year on March 12, 2008 Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
I teach at Creighton University, and so (like most instructors) was appalled when Lamott was "disinvited," but never more than after I read this book. It's been a long time since I've laughed out loud while reading a book, and longer since a book has provoked guffaws (seriously, hearty laughter) AND reflection, revelation, and grief. "Honest" is a perfect word to describe this book, which bravely (I think) puts out there the concept that being a mother isn't always being 100% in love with your child, that it isn't always the most wildly blissful experience, that sometimes mothers do wish they could make their babies disappear. And yet, there is such tenderness in the way she begs repeatedly of God to let her son outlive her (using an image that's always killed me: baby turtles just born, struggling across the beach to the water, picked off one by one by circling birds). This is a woman who runs straight at the truth in her prose, and as a reader I often felt the impact resonate through me. I'm not a mother, and I don't know about the whole God thing, but wow, did this book arrest my movement through life and give me some things to think about.
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