content: Maybe it's too much to expect that every Annie Lamott book be great - but this one's a real disappointment. Annie tries to handle the impossible: the life-threatening illness of a beloved father who'd never had any medical problems prior to diagnosis within an addictive family - but the storyline wanders, the characters get fuzzy and in the end we're left with treacly soap-opera garbage that doesn't ring true. Her other books have MUCH more to offer, fortunately.