SOMEHOW Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott narrates in her natural speaking voice--sincere, conversational, and authentic--with a slightly nasally tone and a sometimes choppy cadence. An accomplished storyteller, Lamott charms her audience with intensely personal love-themed vignettes from her own life, managing to make them universally relatable. Lamott is not talking about romantic love--but, rather, the love that grows from community. She eschews the prevailing American fixation on rugged individualism, noting that the harmony of life cannot be sung solo. Lamott celebrates community, a group of people who value and support one another, as the only way to experience the "call and response" of love. It is, Lamott assures us, "always there for the asking." We would be wise to follow her examples. S.G. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2024]