Imperfect Birds - Softcover

Lamott, Anne

3.31

7,265 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594134499 ISBN 13: 9781594134494

Publisher: Large Print Pr, 2011

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Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. Smart‚ athletic‚ and beautiful‚ she's everything her mother‚ Elizabeth‚ and her stepfather‚ James‚ hoped she could be. But as the school year draws to a close‚ there are disturbing signs that the well-adjusted life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham. Slowly and painfully‚ Elizabeth and James must face the fact that Rosie has been lying to them -- with profound consequences.

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Review:

"Heartbreaking and delightful, moving and hopeful, Imperfect Birds reminds us how our children are connected to and independent of us, and that no matter how difficult our struggle is with them, love underlies it all and saves us. This novel captures the deepest, purest, most terrifying experience of parents fearing for their children. With great insight and humor, Anne Lamott shows us what it means these dangerous days to be a parent, what it means to be a child, and what it means to be a family."
-David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy
"This is a hell of a book, tough and wonderful. A heartbreak and a heart- mender."
-Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and The Golden Mile

About the Author:

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.

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