Crooked Little Heart

With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird Anne Lamott's new novel gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.. Rosie Ferguson in the first bloom of young womanhood is obsessed with tournament tennis. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband; her stepfather a struggling writer is wrestling with his own demons. And now Rosie finds that her athletic gifts once a source of triumph and escape place her in peril as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own...