
A stunning novel from the author of Bird by Bird When a divorc e returns to her small California hometown, she encounters vivid memories of her eccentric family and coming-of-age in the 1960s.
"Anne Lamott is the two-way mirror of our hopes,...

Through the eyes of a small girl, Lamott takes readers on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the 1960s.

With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the Sixties. Leading us through the wake of these changes is Nanny Goodman, a girl living in Marin County, California. A half-adult child among often childish adults, Nanny...

From an award-winning author, tten novel about growing up in the sixties in a gently eccentric Northern California family, told in the voice of a young woman looking back at her past. Captures . . . that . . . feeling--embarassment, pride, despair, love--that swirls around every...