Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

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3.9
16 reviews
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The New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night, DawnHallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything

“Lamott’s …most insightful book yet, Stitches offers plenty of her characteristic witty wisdom…this slim, readable volume [is] a lens on life, widening and narrowing, encouraging each reader to reflect on what it is, after all, that really matters.”—People


What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what’s sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?

These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Lamott’s profound follow-up to her New York Times–bestselling Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time.

It’s in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth, humor, and humanity.

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3.9
16 reviews
Joel KJ
April 8, 2014
Even though the authors attempt with this books is to find light in darkness and show the reader that everything will be OK, she spend so much time dwelling on the negative that she makes it impossible to shake the darkness and see the light. Her negative tone which drones on throughout the book taints every attempt at encouraging the reader to focus on the positive. I would not wish these 67 pages on anyone. Don't take a second look at this title and just move on knowing you are better off not having wasted your time with this collection of negative thoughts.
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Erin Hill
August 27, 2018
A great read that was especially touching as a teacher.
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Jeri Carter
June 29, 2014
Awesome Read.
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About the author

Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; StitchesSome Assembly RequiredGrace (Eventually)Plan BTraveling 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.

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