Anne Lamott’s book Operating Instructions gives an outlook of a mildly disadvantaged woman. This journal is a chronicle of her son Sam's first year. She is fiercely self-deprived, funny and unafraid to talk about the dark side of parenting an infant: the fear, exhaustion, anger, emotional swings; that 4 a.m. inability to cope with the crying neediness of the baby. She questions her faith, which she cannot justify on a why she was pregnant, …showed first 75 words of 672 total…

…showed last 75 words of 672 total…book is so emotional that it leaves me unsure of my review. On one hand, I'm all for putting down exactly what you actually think/feel, especially in a non-fiction book. On the other hand, I stop being for it when it starts doing some serious potential injury to other people like Sam when he grows up. Overall read this book, the details are soon good, it makes you feel like you have experienced it.