Published in 2019
1 hour and 46 minutes
Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and the forthcoming Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.
What is this book about?
Three simple prayers to get you through tough times, everyday struggles, and the hard work of ordinary life.
‘I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the last 25 years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help. Thanks. Wow.’
Audiences of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about faith and prayer. And in Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she’s learned about prayer into these simple, transformative truths.
It is these three prayers – asking for assistance, appreciating the good we witness, and feeling awe at the world – that get us through the day and show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they have meant to her over the years and how they’ve helped, and explores how others have embraced these ideas.
Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is an audiobook that new Lamott listers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.
