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Anne Lamott - Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Published April 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM EDT
Book cover for Anne Lamott "Somehow"
Riverhead Books

Anne Lamott’s new book “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” is her 20th book and published on her 70th birthday. In each chapter, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum. She explores love and the power it has in our lives. The lessons she underscores are that love enlightens as it educates, comforts as it energizes, sustains as it surprises.

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