Writer ANNE LAMOTT has written a new book about being a mother for the first time (and single, at that), "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year." (Pantheon Books). One reviewer writes of the book, "an emotional roller coaster ride. Painfully honest, laced with humor and poetry and moments of profound insight, it captures the intense fluctuations of feeling, the rapid alternation of exhilaration and fury, love and despair, that characterizes new parenthood." LAMOTT is also the author of the novels, "Hard Laughter," and "All New People."
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