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Some Assembly Required
- A Journal of My Son's First Son
- Narrated by: Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Some Assembly Required
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Publisher's Summary
In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life: grandmotherhood.
Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at 19, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson, Jax's, life.
In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam - about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions - struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work, as they both forge new relationships with Jax's mother, who has her own ideas about how to raise a child. Lamott writes about the complex feelings that Jax fosters in her, recalling her own experiences with Sam when she was a single mother. Over the course of the year, the rhythms of life, death, family, and friends unfold in surprising and joyful ways.
By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family - as this book will change everyone who listens to it.
What the critics say
"[Lamott’s] crisp writing and self-deprecating honesty ring charmingly true.”—People
"[Some Assembly Required is] full of Lamott’s trademark neurotic spirituality, and it’s one Lamott’s fans will want." (The Washington Post)
"Wonderful...[with] Lamott’s trademark sharp wit and self-deprecating humor.... Like so many of Lamott’s books, [Some Assembly Required] leaves readers with new insights." (The Associated Press)