as well as seven novels, including Rosie and Crooked Little Heart. Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers. EVENT: Anne Lamott, The New York Times Bestselling author of Imperfect Birds will. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own. Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis. Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband. The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher. CROOKED LITTLE HEART Kirkus Reviews After a very successful nonfiction run (Bird by Bird, 1994, etc), Lamott returns with her fifth novel seemingly refreshed and invigorated with a further exploration of the world of Rosie Ferguson, the awkward adolescent tennis champion first seen in Rosie (1983). And now Rosie finds that her athletic gifts, once a source of triumph and escape, place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with his own demons. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes an exuberant, richly absorbing novel about a family for whom the joys and sorrows of. With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis.

Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott