Crooked Little Heart (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Lamott
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: The San Francisco Bay Area
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth Ferguson, Rosie Ferguson, James, Rae, Lank, Simone, Luther, Charles, J. Peter Billings
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Adolescence, Authors or writers, Art or artists, California, West, U.S., God, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Pregnancy, Substance abuse, Depression, mental, Fraud, Tennis
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
Following the success of her charming book about writing, Bird by Bird (1994), and her memoir of motherhood, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year (1993), Anne Lamott has returned to the novel with Crooked Little Heart, her fifth novel, which picks up with characters introduced in Rosie (1983). Rosie is a thirteen-year-old tournament-caliber tennis player, watching the world and the people around her with the misshapen clarity that only a teenager can summon. Elizabeth is her recovering alcoholic mother, widowed from her first husband and...
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