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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year | 
 enlarge | Author: Anne Lamott
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  152 reviews
Sales Rank: 12618
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1400079098
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400079094
ASIN: 1400079098
Publication Date: March 8, 2005
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Amazon.com Review
The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to lean on. She responds to the changes, exhaustion, and love Sam brings with aplomb or outright insanity. The book rocks from hilarious to unbearably poignant when Sam's burgeoning life is played out against a very close friend's illness. No saccharine paean to becoming a parent, this touches on the rage and befuddlement that dog sweeter emotions during this sea change in one's life.
Product Description
It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman’s life.
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 Whiny and Negative June 25, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is about an extremely emotionally ill women, who has spent her entire life avoiding reality with coke, meth, and alcohol, who now sober at 35 gets knocked up by one of the random men she is sleeping with. (She apparently is too hippie for condoms.)
Maybe it's because I don't have kids, but I find a mother doing nothing but go on and on and on about her kids every movement very monotonous and boring. Not only is that what she writes about in this book, but she is extremely negative, cynical and it's annoying.
 A must-have for new mothers June 16, 2008
This book helped me survive my first-born. It was such a breath of fresh air, and Lamott was like my best friend, sharing the same experiences. I have read this book countless times - and laugh out loud each time. I always send this book to all my friends when they have their first born. (As you can see by my order history.) This is a much better tool than any of the how-to baby books out there. I absolutely love it!
 Ok.... May 10, 2008
Funny at times, way too religious at others.
Overall just "ok"
I would recommend "Mother Shock" by Andrea J Buchanan instead.
Great book for fathers, too April 22, 2008
As a married father, you might think I'd have a hard time relating to this story of a single woman bringing up her son more or less by herself. But Anne Lamott's willingness to open up the most intimate details of her private life--her struggles, insecurities, and anger at the challenge of being alone with a new baby--drew me in very deeply. And she's very funny, too. After you've read the "What to Expect" and other standard-issue baby books, pick this up. You won't be disappointed.
AMAZING March 26, 2008
This book was given to me as a gift when I had my son 3 years ago. I have been giving it as a gift since then. Anne Lamott is amazing and real and forward. This book is not for those who want things sugar-coated. It is real life motherhood for your first year. This book, this author, made me feel so normal and so real. I would tell anyone who can take the harsh reality of becoming a mother to read this! She made me laugh, cry and love...all on the same page.
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