Lamott spends the introduction writing about her youth. She details growing up in a house of readers and writers. She explains her journey into writing, both the struggle to find her voice and the triumph of finally getting published.
As Steven Wright states in the epigraph to John Koenig's book, "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows," "I read the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." Just as Wright saw poetry in the dictionary, so I saw a commentary on running in a book about writing and life.
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