Hallelujah Anyway

Rediscovering Mercy

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it.

"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others—and yourself—to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult.

In Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by "facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves." It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere—"within us and outside us, all around us"—and to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it's crucial, as "kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all."

Full of Lamott’s trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wise—a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.

Not my fave Lamott

Normally I love Anne Lamott’s books. This one just didn’t hit me as positively as her others. Usually I am moved and inspired by her work. It is also very funny. In this book I don’t know whether it was too derivative of other things of hers that I have read, but somehow it seemed more tired and mean spirited than usual.

Cool water on a hot day. A moment of shade.

Once again and Lamont has put into words the things that I needed to understand and didn’t know I needed. Thank you

Hallelujah for Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott is one if my all-time favorite writers because she has a gift of describing everyday events of life and making them relevant to all. She makes me laugh out loud. She makes me cry. This book is full of mercy, hope and joy.

Another Home Run

Like everything Anne Lamont writes, this book is brilliant. I find a great deal of comfort in her words of wisdom.

Beautiful story of mercy, love, & transformation

I loved this book. Very beautifully written with themes that stretch deep into he heart of the human condition.