Today, May 2nd, is the second discussion question for the Beyond Busy Global Monthly Book Club. We just finished Anne Lamott’s Some Assembly Required, A Journal of My Son’s First Son and now we will spend seven days discussing it. Anyone who has read the book can participate by commenting.
Our next book selection is the hot-off-the-presses Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel. You can join our public BBGMBC Facebook group, if you would like to join us in reading one excellent quality book per month and then discussing it here.
Some Assembly Required, A Journal of My Son’s First Son is written by Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott and published by Riverhead in 2012.
Grandparents do not seem to often get to take center stage in memoirs…is this true?
One of the most refreshing aspects of this book for me was the opportunity to hear what it’s like to be the grandmother from a grandma-in-the-trenches, who writes unflinchingly about her feelings and foibles, without necessarily having to hear this perspective from my own mother.
Through Lamott and her scintillating (and sometimes sizzling) takes on personal relationships I was able to imagine what it feels like to be the grandma. And this alone was worth the price of the book and the time spent reading the book.
Would you agree or disagree?
And are grandparents’ points of view adequately represented in the memoir genre?
