Plan b: further thoughts on faith

With Anne Lamott’s trademark wisdom, humor and honesty, Plan B is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in our increasingly fraught times. This New York Times bestseller picks up where Traveling Mercies left off.

The New York Times – Lauren F. Winner

If one needs a corrective to the notion that all American Christians are happy with George W. Bush, one need look no farther than Anne Lamott’s Plan B. A sequel of sorts to Traveling Mercies, her previous collection of assorted, quirky subtitular thoughts on faith, Plan B presents Lamott at middle age, totally despondent about the Iraq war, the administration and the future of the world. She decides not to kill herself — overeating would be her preferred method — only because she wants to stay alive to protest the war and the White House.