A review by falconerreader
Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott

4.0

This is a rare book in that it didn't have much of a plot, yet I loved it. I enjoyed it much more than its sequel--I seem to be reading the trilogy in reverse order. Another oddity is that my single favorite part of this book were the fights. "From Bosnia to Paris in 24 hours" muses Elizabeth after reconciling with her husband. I've always preferred Lamott's nonfiction to her fiction, and it's her honesty that makes it great. She says out loud things I barely let myself think. That's how it felt reading about the fights as well--that mortifying yet satisfying sense of recognition. I also loved how the scary lurker turns out to be something completely different. And while Rosie is over the top, foreshadowing the nonsense she gets into by the next book, her struggles with light and darkness are true to adolescense. (But injuring yourself with your own tennis trophy? It's like cutting, which I also never got.)