When Nora lost her dad, her second pregnancy, and her husband in the fall of 2015, people gifted her a lot of books. Why? Because people want to say and do the right thing when times are hard … want to make everything better as fast as possible. Many of those books ended up in the donation pile immediately, but one of the books Nora actually read was by Anne Lamott.
Since then, she’s read all of Anne’s books — including her latest, Dusk, Night, Dawn. So it only made sense to kick off this new show with Nora’s conversation with Anne.
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Originally published on “Terrible, Thanks for Asking” on October 12th, 2021
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