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When she stumbles upon a small rubber blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a recently divorced mother of two young children, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing, finding in the process the foundation for a new relationship with her mother and the potential for a new life. 125,000 first printing.
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"[For] anyone who's ever had a heartache or a family."
Brave and weirdly lovable. ("New York Times Book Review") Irrestible...a work full of shaggy, truthful claim. ("San Francisco Chronicle") Philosophical, honest, and poignant. ("Boston Herald") The novel's effect on the reader is profoundly springlike. It is tonic. ("Minneapolis Star-Tribune")
"Messy, brave and weirdly lovable...a substantial literary pleasure."—New York Times Book Review
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Brave and weirdly lovable. ("New York Times Book Review") Irrestible...a work full of shaggy, truthful claim. ("San Francisco Chronicle") Philosophical, honest, and poignant. ("Boston Herald") The novel's effect on the reader is profoundly springlike. It is tonic. ("Minneapolis Star-Tribune")
"Messy, brave and weirdly lovable...a substantial literary pleasure."—New York Times Book Review
"Moving and funny, fetchingly irreverent and soulful, Blue Shoe is an absolute joy."—Chicago Sun-Times
"Everybody loves Anne Lamott...[she] writes with an emotional shorthand that's instantly decipherable and funny to anyone who's had children—or parents."—The Christian Science Monitor
"Irresistible...Lamott has created a work full of shaggy, truthful charm."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Glorious...After reading Blue Shoe, you feel as if you had sat on the kitchen floor and talked with the author late into the night about your mothers, your bodies, your lovers, and God. And that, in a nutshell, is the minor miracle of Lamott's writing."—The Atlanta Journal Constitution
"Philosophical, honest, and poignant, Lamott writes about real life and how it goes on, through good and through bad."—Boston Herald
"The novel's effect on the reader is profoundly springlike: It is tonic."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Anyone who's ever had a heartache—or a family—will relate to Anne Lamott's poignant novels."—Rosie Magazine
"Blue Shoe is a gift you will want to give yourself."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Anne Lamott is the author of the national bestsellers Traveling Mercies, Bird by Bird, and Operating Instructions, as well as five novels, including Crooked Little Heart and Rosie. Her column in Salon magazine was voted the Best of the Web by Newsweek magazine, and she is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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- PublisherRiverhead Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1573222267
- ISBN 13 9781573222266
- BindingHardcover
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