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Learn more From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Bird by Bird, a powerful and redemptive novel of love and family
Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent-she aced AP physics; athletic-a former state-ranked tennis doubles champion; and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her mother, Elizabeth, hoped she could be. The family's move to Landsdale, with stepfather James in tow, hadn't been as bumpy as Elizabeth feared.
But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Slowly and against their will, Elizabeth and James are forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to them-and that her deceptions will have profound consequences.
This is Anne Lamott's most honest and heartrending novel yet, exploring our human quest for connection and salvation as it reveals the traps that can befall all of us.
Anne LamottĀ is theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches;Ā Some Assembly Required;Ā Grace (Eventually);Ā Plan B;Ā Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird;Ā Operating Instructions, and the forthcomingĀ Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, includingĀ Imperfect BirdsĀ andĀ Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.
Susan DenakerāsĀ extensive theatre credits include numerous plays in the West End of London, national tours, and many English Rep companies, including a season with Alan Ayckbournās company in Scarborough. More recently in the United States, Susan has appeared inĀ Our TownĀ andĀ Sweet Bird of Youth,Ā both at the La Jolla Playhouse, andĀ Breaking LegsĀ at the Westport Playhouse.
Anne LamottĀ is theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches;Ā Some Assembly Required;Ā Grace (Eventually);Ā Plan B;Ā Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird;Ā Operating Instructions, and the forthcomingĀ Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, includingĀ Imperfect BirdsĀ andĀ Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.
Susan DenakerāsĀ extensive theatre credits include numerous plays in the West End of London, national tours, and many English Rep companies, including a season with Alan Ayckbournās company in Scarborough. More recently in the United States, Susan has appeared inĀ Our TownĀ andĀ Sweet Bird of Youth,Ā both at the La Jolla Playhouse, andĀ Breaking LegsĀ at the Westport Playhouse.
Reviews
"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 Expand reviews