Hard Laughter
Author: Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott’s poignant first novel Hard Laughter, reissued in an attractive new edition.,,,,Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott’s unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by Wallace’s illness as by the e….Read More
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