About Daring: My Passages • Hardcover: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 2, 2014) The author of Passages, a book that changed millions of lives, now lays bare her own life passages in a captivating memoir that reveals her harrowing and ultimately triumphant path from groundbreaking 1960s “girl” journalist to fearless bestselling author who made […]
Debby Irving, author of Waking Up White, on tour July 2014
About Waking Up White • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Elephant Room Press (January 9, 2014) On the heels of a year when films such Django, The Butler, and 12 Years a Slave have made real the lived experience of black Americans, Waking Up White exposes critical aspects of the white experience. White people are thirsting for clarity […]
Tim Anderson, author of Sweet Tooth, on tour June 2014
About Sweet Tooth Paperback: 334 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (March 11, 2014) “To a boy whose ideal snack was Little Debbie Zebra Cakes, the existence of a disease like diabetes seemed like the dark work of a mean God.” So begins Sweet Tooth (March 2014 | Lake Union Publishing), the much-anticipated new memoir by Tim Anderson, […]
Irris Makler, author of Hope Street, Jerusalem, on tour February/March 2014
About Hope Street, Jerusalem • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: HarperCollins (February 25, 2014) ‘I had no idea how demanding this consuming, cruel, dangerous and fascinating place would be. I would fall in love here, I would do some of my best reporting, I would be injured, ending my run of good luck – my life would change dramatically […]
Gayathri Ramprasad, author of Shadows in the Sun, on tour March 2014
About Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within Softcover, 240 pp. Publisher: Hazelden Published Year: 2014 Americans have become immune to the terms, drugs, and behaviors associated with depression even as its reputation has grown as a debilitating and sometimes fatal mental illness. But in India and elsewhere the stigma associated with […]
Janice Gary, author of Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance, on tour December 2013/January 2014
About Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance Paperback: 246 pages Publisher: Michigan State University Press; 1 edition (August 1, 2013) It’s hard to believe that a walk in the park can change a life – let alone two – but for Janice Gary and her dog Barney, that’s exactly what happened. Gary always walked […]
Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, on tour November 2013
About This is the Story of a Happy Marriage • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 5, 2013) Ann Patchett’s novels have been feats of imagination—from the tale of an opera singer held hostage inside a vice presidential mansion, to a forgotten tribe along the banks of the Amazon river—she has created entire worlds for the reader to […]
Michael Perry, author of Visiting Tom, on tour August/September 2013
About Visiting Tom • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 12, 2013) From the acclaimed author of Coop and Population: 485 comes a portrait of a unique individual and a dedicated way of life. What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit—often with his […]
Kristina Morgan, author of Mind Without a Home, on tour October 2013
About Mind Without a Home: A Memoir of Schizophrenia Paperback: 260 pages Publisher: Hazelden (August 27, 2013) Experience the inner world of a woman with schizophrenia in this brutally honest, lyrical memoir. Kristina Morgan takes us inside her head to experience the chaos of the schizophrenic mind. With the intimacy of private journal-like entries and the language […]
David Fitzpatrick, author of Sharp, on tour July 2013
About Sharp • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 2, 2013) “Endorphins sped through me. I spun around, growing dizzy, frantic, and silly. I wasn’t drunk, but I felt a nice stoned feeling, sans paranoia, and I thought, ‘I believe I’ve found my new pharmaceutical deep inside.’ I giggled fearlessly, manically at this and looked […]