Anne Lamott & Sam Lamott (OFFSITE @ Peralta Elementary School)
in conversation based on her new book Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son (Riverhead, $26.95).
Ticketed event: $5 admission fee redeemable toward book purchase. Please call the store (510.704.8222) to reserve your ticket.
Free parking in the school lot on Alcatraz between Telegraph and Dana.
OMG, Anne Lamott is a grandmother! Read all about it!
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 with the demands of college and work, as they both forge new relationships with Jax's mother, who has her own ideas about how to raise a child. Lamott writes about the complex feelings that Jax fosters in her, recalling her own experiences with Sam when she was a single mother. Over the course of the year, the rhythms of life, death, family, and friends unfold in surprising and joyful ways.
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.
"[Lamott's] canny ability to see the extraordinary in the ordinary with wit and irreverence makes for an entertaining ride through Jax’s first year."--Publishers Weekly
Anne Lamott is the author of Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies, and Operating Instructions, as well as 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 currently studying industrial design, with a major in product design. He lives in San Francisco.
