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Crooked Little Heart

Crooked Little Heart

Author(s): Anne Lamott

Location(s): California

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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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. 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. 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…

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Set in Marin County, California this portrays a family in their social setting, a mother/daughter relationship in a real and well observed way. And tennis reigns supreme – great as a coming of age...

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