Assembly Man

I’ve read all of Anne Lamott’s non-fiction books—curiously, I’ve not picked up a single one of her novels—and so I had get her most recent one when I learned it was out. Some Assembly Required is her journal into grandparenthood, one that she unexpectedly entered into when her son Sam announced at age nineteen that he was going to be a father. Lamott and Sam chronicle his child Jax’s first year of life, and this book takes the familiar neurotic, touching, and hilarious twists and turns you’d expect given the source.