Summary and Reviews of Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott

Media Reviews

Los Angeles Times Book Review If you're stuck in an elevator when the Big One hits, you couldn't do much better than be stranded there with Anne Lamott.

Newsweek In her novels and her nonfiction, Anne Lamott writes about subjects that begin with capital letters (Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus). But armed with self-effacing humor and ruthless honesty — call it a lowercase approach to life's Big Questions — Lamott converts potential op-ed boilerplate into enchantment.

O, the Oprah Magazine A dead-on charming book.

San Francisco Chronicle Book Review She can render almost any situation indecently, riotously funny, then turn it around on a dime and find the lesson in it . . . . She has written powerfully on some of life's most important subjects motherhood, work, faith. One can only wonder what she will write about next — and hope that she will do it very soon.

The Atlanta Constitution 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 lovers and God. That, in a nutshell, is the minor miracle of Lamott's writing.

The New Yorker Anne Lamott's is a cause for celebration. [Her] real genius lies in capturing the ineffable, describing not perfect moments but imperfect ones . . . perfectly. She is nothing short of miraculous.

Time Out New York Anne Lamott's Blue Shoe offers proof that her clever approach to craft does indeed produce superior fiction.

Kirkus Reviews Lamott infuses this peripatetic story of a woman's struggles after a divorce with the same quirky brand of Christianity she explored in her wildly popular memoir, Traveling Mercies (1999).

Library Journal Lamott's use of language allows us to see the smallest details from a fresh perspective, and her stories of motherhood and faith never fail to entertain and move us, all within the tightly wound ball of a good literary yarn.

Publisher's Weekly Starred Review. A breakout work. Funny, poignant and occasionally gut-wrenching.

Publishers Weekly ..... brilliantly captures the dilemma of a divorced woman from the so-called sandwich generation in her latest, a funny, poignant and occasionally gut-wrenching novel

Booklist - Carol Haggas In a convoluted story filled with improbable plotlines and impossible circumstances, the chance discovery of a tiny blue plastic shoe, a child's prize from a gumball machine, leads to the unraveling of a long-buried family mystery and reveals the equally mysterious workings of faith, family, and friendship.