Faith for Troubled Times

In a world growing darker by the day, how can we find our way to the light? Author and activist Anne Lamott's latest collection of essays, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage (Riverhead Books), is a personal exploration of faith in troubling times. Pulling the reader in like a dear old friend, Lamott employs equal measures of gritty humor and candid vulnerability throughout her musings on relationships, aging, sobriety, and global turmoil. Ultimately, Lamott's work is steeped in both struggle and resilience, the raw truths of our human existence. "When the lights go out and we deploy our candles and lanterns, we see the beauty of contrast, which makes both light and shadow precious," writes Lamott. "In art and photography it is called chiaroscuro…and of course, we find shadow and light in our families, and ourselves."