{"product_id":"blue-shoe-isbn-9781573223423","title":"Blue Shoe","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller from the beloved author of \u003ci\u003eBird by Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHallelujah Anyway, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAlmost Everything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and she has a crush on a married man. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoe—nothing more than a gumball trinket—left behind by her father. For Mattie, it becomes a talisman—a chance to recognize the past for what it was, to see the future as she always hoped it could be, and to finally understand her family, herself, and the ever-unfolding mystery of her sweet, sad, and sometimes surprising life.\u003c\/p\u003e\"Messy, brave and weirdly lovable...a substantial literary pleasure.”—\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Moving and funny, fetchingly irreverent and soulful, \u003cb\u003eBlue Shoe\u003c\/b\u003e is an absolute joy.\"—\u003cb\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Everybody loves Anne Lamott...[she] writes with an emotional shorthand that’s instantly decipherable and funny to anyone who’s had children—or parents.”—\u003cb\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Irresistible...Lamott has created a work full of shaggy, truthful charm.\"—\u003cb\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Glorious...After reading \u003cb\u003eBlue Shoe\u003c\/b\u003e, you feel as if you had sat on the kitchen floor and talked with the author late into the night about your mothers, your bodies, your lovers, and God. And that, in a nutshell, is the minor miracle of Lamott’s writing.”—\u003cb\u003eThe Atlanta Journal Constitution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Philosophical, honest, and poignant, Lamott writes about real life and how it goes on, through good and through bad.”—\u003cb\u003eBoston Herald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”The novel’s effect on the reader is profoundly springlike: It is tonic.”—\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anyone who's ever had a heartache—or a family—will relate to Anne Lamott's poignant novels.\"—\u003cb\u003eRosie Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eBlue Shoe\u003c\/b\u003e is a gift you will want to give yourself.\"—\u003cb\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Lamott\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHelp, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSome Assembly Required\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGrace (Eventually)\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePlan B\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTraveling Mercies; Bird by Bird\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOperating Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e, and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eHallelujah Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of several novels, including \u003ci\u003eImperfect Birds \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRosie\u003c\/i\u003e. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304549830885,"sku":"NP9781573223423","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781573223423.jpg?v=1767722849","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/blue-shoe-isbn-9781573223423","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}