Hallelujah Anyway

**“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —* Chicago Tribune*

From the bestselling author of *Help, Thanks, Wow* and *Stitches* comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it**

*Mercy is radical kindness,* Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, *Hallelujah Anyway*. It's the permission you give others--and yourself--to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult.

In *Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy* Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by-facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves. It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere-within us and outside us, all around us-and to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it's crucial, as *kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all.*

Full of Lamott's trademark honesty, humor, and forthrightness, *Hallelujah Anyway* is profound and caring, funny and wise--a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.