0
    • Elementary Secondary Higher Ed Common Reads
    0 0
    Download high-resolution image Look inside
    Listen to a clip from the audiobook
    audio play button
    0:00
    0:00

    Crooked Little Heart

    A Novel

    Author Anne Lamott
    Look inside
    Listen to a clip from the audiobook
    audio play button
    0:00
    0:00
    Paperback
    $19.00 US
    Knopf | Anchor
    On sale May 18, 1998 | 336 Pages | 9780385491808
    Add to cart Add to list Exam Copies

    See Additional Formats
    With the same combination of humor and honesty that animates her nonfiction works Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Lamott's new novel portrays a not-untypical family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified by the unexpected. By bringing normally subsurface issues into relief, Lamott asks big questions in intimate ways: What keeps a family together? What are the small heartbreaks that tear at us? What happens to grief when it goes underground? And what road must we walk with our flawed and crooked hearts?
    © Sam Lamott
    Anne Lamott is the author of twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Help, Thanks, Wow; Dusk, Night, Dawn; Traveling Mercies; and Bird by Bird, as well as seven novels. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California with her family. View titles by Anne Lamott
    "Pulses with an emotional generosity that is rare." —San Francisco Chronicle

    "Eloquent, detailed, emotionally honest... Lamott deserves praise for telling it like it is." —People

    "Crooked Little Heart    ... incapacitated me for several days.  I could do little else but move from one reading post to another throughout my house and yard, and follow the continuing story of Rosie Ferguson in the summer of her 13th year.... The writing is threaded with precise imagery, tenderness, and high humor." —L.A. Weekly

    "Lamott's descriptive talents are considerable and... consistently evocative. Crooked Little Heart is likely to win [her] the huge and appreciative audience her masterful fiction demands." —Boston Globe

    About

    With the same combination of humor and honesty that animates her nonfiction works Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Lamott's new novel portrays a not-untypical family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified by the unexpected. By bringing normally subsurface issues into relief, Lamott asks big questions in intimate ways: What keeps a family together? What are the small heartbreaks that tear at us? What happens to grief when it goes underground? And what road must we walk with our flawed and crooked hearts?

    Author

    © Sam Lamott
    Anne Lamott is the author of twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Help, Thanks, Wow; Dusk, Night, Dawn; Traveling Mercies; and Bird by Bird, as well as seven novels. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California with her family. View titles by Anne Lamott

    Praise

    "Pulses with an emotional generosity that is rare." —San Francisco Chronicle

    "Eloquent, detailed, emotionally honest... Lamott deserves praise for telling it like it is." —People

    "Crooked Little Heart    ... incapacitated me for several days.  I could do little else but move from one reading post to another throughout my house and yard, and follow the continuing story of Rosie Ferguson in the summer of her 13th year.... The writing is threaded with precise imagery, tenderness, and high humor." —L.A. Weekly

    "Lamott's descriptive talents are considerable and... consistently evocative. Crooked Little Heart is likely to win [her] the huge and appreciative audience her masterful fiction demands." —Boston Globe

    Additional formats

    Other Books by this Author

    Related Articles

    Subscribe

    Penguin Random House Higher Education

    © 2026 Penguin Random House

    Back to Top
    0
    Wish List (0)