Name: In-Store: Suzy Hopkins & Hallie Bateman: What to Do When You Get Dumped
Start: 2025-02-13T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-13T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Books Are Magic Montague

In-Store: Suzy Hopkins & Hallie Bateman: What to Do When You Get Dumped

"With insight, humor and compassion, here is a sparkly survival manual for living a good and even much better life." —Maira Kalman
About this Event

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All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.
Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.
Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
A signing will follow the talk.
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From the beloved mother-daughter team who brought us What to Do When I’m Gone, a poignant, funny, heartfelt, and gorgeously illustrated guide to navigating the pain and complexity of getting dumped.

"A book that feels like a warm hug from your best friend." —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Funny Story

After Suzy Hopkins’s husband of thirty years unexpectedly left her to pursue an old flame, her grief was so overwhelming that she thought her own heart might stop. How do you take the first step forward after losing such an integral part of your life?
In What to Do When You Get Dumped, the mother-daughter duo of Hopkins and her New Yorker–illustrator extraordinaire daughter Hallie Bateman offer an incisive, tender, appealingly illustrated guide to “unbreaking” your heart. Using a countdown from the moment you’re dumped, the book offers humor and hope as it guides readers on the journey to find new meaning and purpose in a life that’s yours alone.
Lighthearted, impactful, and deeply consoling, What to Do When You Get Dumped provides the wisdom to emerge from a breakup smarter, stronger, and with the unshakable knowledge that you are worthy of lasting love.

Suzy Hopkins is a former newspaper reporter and magazine publisher. She is coauthor of What to Do When I’m Gone with her daughter, writer and illustrator Hallie Bateman. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Hallie Bateman is a writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Awl, and many others. Her books include Directions, What to Do When I’m Gone, and Brave New Work. Other books she has illustrated include Eggasaurus. She lives in Cincinnati, OH.

Mari Andrew is a Brooklyn-based New York Times bestselling author, artist, teacher, and speaker, who has gained an international reputation for joyfully philosophical illustrations and essays that meander between deep and light, bitter and sweet. Her books include Am I There Yet? and My Inner Sky.