SPIRITUALITY & RELIGION

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

by Anne Lamott
Riverhead. 2012. 112p. ISBN 9781594631290. $17.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101607732. REL
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OrangeReviewStarThe very popular Lamott (Bird by Bird) claims here that prayer boils down to the three exclamations of the title—it seems like a reductive claim, but Lamott, an unusually hip, demotic, urbane kind of Christian, is a naturally expansive and chatty writer. These blog-like reflections exhibit the author's usual fluency and charm.
VERDICT A worthy successor to her prior works, this brief book will delight Lamott's regular readers, and likely draw new readers to her writing and to the ideas behind prayer.
Reviewed by Graham Christian , Feb 01, 2013
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