01953nam 22004573 450 991016294780332120230617022408.01-101-66659-5(CKB)3710000001044996(MiAaPQ)EBC6048876(Au-PeEL)EBL6048876(OCoLC)1156044106(BIP)008498351(EXLCZ)99371000000104499620210901d2003 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBlue ShoeEast Rutherford :Penguin Publishing Group,2003.©2003.1 online resource (258 pages)1-57322-342-5 The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies.Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and she has a crush on a married man. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoenothing more than a gumball trinketleft behind by her father. For Mattie, it becomes a talismana chance to recognize the past for what it was, to see the future as she always hoped it could be, and to finally understand her family, herself, and the ever-unfolding mystery of her sweet, sad, and sometimes surprising life.Female friendship--FictionFictionSan Francisco (Calif.)Mothers And DaughtersFriendshipFemale friendship--Fiction.813/.54Lamott Anne1346758MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910162947803321Blue Shoe3382524UNINA