![]() ![]() ![]() Remote and neurotic Elizabeth, takes to her bed in depression Jack is absorbed in his new book Charles Adderly is dying. But wrapped up in their own problems, the adults in her life unwittingly fail Rosie at a critical time in her adolescence. ![]() and a warm extended family of friends-Rae and Lank and the elderly Adderlys-cherish Rosie. Her mother, Elizabeth, who loves Rosie fiercely but who often can't cope, has married writer James. Rosie Ferguson is now 13 and a rising star in the teenage tennis circuit, playing doubles with her best friend, Simone. In revisiting the characters and idyllic Northern California setting of that book, Lamott again demonstrates her irrepressible, edgy humor and a new, deeper understanding of psychological nuance. Before she won deserved acclaim for her two recent nonfiction books, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Lamott wrote Rosie, an enchanting novel whose eponymous protagonist is a nine-year-old girl whose father dies suddenly and whose mother becomes an alcoholic. ![]()
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