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Some Assembly Required

Some Assembly Required

by Anne Lamott & Sam Lamott

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In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life: grandmotherhood.

Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life...Read more »

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