Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

by Anne Lamott and Sam Lamott

for $ 9.99

“If there is a doyenne of the parenting memoir, it would be Anne Lamott.”—Time

In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter in her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax’s life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam—about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions—struggle to balance their changing roles. By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family—as this book will change everyone who reads it.

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New York Times : Ask Anne Lamott, Author of ‘Some Assembly Required’ (April 18, 2012)

The story of that baby’s arrival and his first year, of Sam growing into fatherhood as Ms. Lamott struggled to let him grow, is the story of “Some Assembly Required.”