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

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything

"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.

Author: Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 04/02/2013
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.13w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9781594486678
ISBN10: 1594486670
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Grandparenting
- Family & Relationships | Life Stages | Infants & Toddlers | General

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.

Sam Lamott is an inventor, designer, entrepreneur, and artist who lives in San Francisco.