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This special updated version of the New York Times-bestseller, Kitchen Table Wisdom, addresses the same spiritual issues that made the original a bestseller: suffering, meaning, love, faith, and miracles.

Every time I came away from reading a chapter of My Grandfather’s Blessings, I felt a stillness, a quietness, as though I had been meditating.

A professional family man from the suburbs of New York City takes a road trip to middle America with a guru monk, giving the reader much humor and insight and a sense of possibilities. I wanted to carry this book around me when I finished reading it just to keep the tenderness near me. Also recommended: the rest of his Buddha books and Merullo’s Revere Beach books.

“If there is a doyenne of the parenting memoir, it would be Anne Lamott.”—Time In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter in her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about...