Join us for a virtual event with luminary authors and editors to celebrate the paperback release of Susan Shapiro’s The Forgiveness Tour.About this Event
Join us for a virtual event with bestselling authors, luminary editors, agents, and New York Times contributors, celebrating the paperback release of Sue Shapiro’s The Forgiveness Tour. This event will be held on Zoom.
The Panel Includes:
Holly Baxter, Independent editor (author of Clickbait)
Alan Henry, Wired editor (author of Seen, Heard & Paid)
Miya Lee, NYT Modern Love editor (author of Tiny Love Stories)
Joy Peskin, Executive director FSG Books for Young Readers
Rakesh Satyal, Harpercollins Executive editor (author of No One Can Pronounce My Name)
Samantha Wekstein, Thompson Literary agent
Howard Yoon, WME agent
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"Essential reading."—Publishers Weekly
"Enlightening and universally relevant."—Kirkus
“To err is human; to forgive divine.” But what if the person who hurt you most refuses to apologize or express any regret?
That’s the question haunting Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro when her trusted advisor of fifteen years repeatedly lies to her. Stunned by the betrayal, she can barely eat or sleep. She’s always seen herself as big-hearted and benevolent, someone who will forgive anyone anything —as long as they’re remorseful. Yet the addiction specialist who helped her quit smoking, drinking, and drugs after decades of self-destruction won’t explain—or stop—his ongoing deceit, leaving her blindsided. Her crisis management strategy is becoming her crisis.
To protect her sanity and sobriety, Shapiro ends their relationship and vows they’ll never speak again. Yet ghosting him doesn’t end her distress. She has screaming arguments with him in her mind, relives their fallout in panicked nightmares and even lights a candle, chanting a secret Yiddish curse to exact revenge.
In her entrancing, heartfelt new memoir The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology, Shapiro wrestles with how to exonerate someone who can’t cough up a measly “my bad” or mumble “mea culpa.” Seeking wisdom, she explores the billion-dollar forgiveness industry touting the personal benefits of absolution, where the only choice on every channel is: radical forgiveness. She fears it’s all bullshit.
Susan Shapiro is a popular writing professor and bestselling author/coauthor of many provocative books her family hates, including Unhooked, Lighting Up, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, The Byline Bible and The Book Bible. You can follow her on Twitter at @susanshapironet and Instagram @profsue123.
Event Venue
Online
USD 7.81 to USD 29.84
