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A review by kricketa
All New People by Anne Lamott
5.0
This is just the Lamott I needed. I can’t believe I let so much time go by before reading this, but maybe I knew all along that I should save a couple of her novels for this era when all she is publishing is the same cute essays over and over and over (see my review of Grace Eventually.)
This one is a slow moving, quiet, luscious reflection on the main character (Nanny, as always, layered with Annie) and her growing up years in Marin County during the sixties. There are so many familiar aspects of this story- the setting overlaps with all of Anne’s own memoir pieces, with Hard Laughter, with Blue Shoe- and Nanny has wild blond hair- but at the same time, it’s new, with a new family and friends. As always, I laughed my arse off at Anne’s wry metaphors. Beautiful. Beautiful.
This one is a slow moving, quiet, luscious reflection on the main character (Nanny, as always, layered with Annie) and her growing up years in Marin County during the sixties. There are so many familiar aspects of this story- the setting overlaps with all of Anne’s own memoir pieces, with Hard Laughter, with Blue Shoe- and Nanny has wild blond hair- but at the same time, it’s new, with a new family and friends. As always, I laughed my arse off at Anne’s wry metaphors. Beautiful. Beautiful.