Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

2010. 1983. ISBN 0-679-43520-4.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness Lamott's writings cover such subjects as alcoholism single motherhood depression and Christianity.