Author event! Julie Fingersh and Joanne Green

Zibby's Bookshop is excited to welcome Julie Fingersh and Joanne Green to celebrate Julie's memior, STAY!

About the book:

Called “Rich, wise, funny, and beautifully written” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott, Stay : A Story of Family, Love, and Other Traumas is a riveting debut that captures the joyous and painful complexity of family love and loyalty, the cost of family secrets, and the quest to help the people we love most without losing our own way. It’s also a rare window into two of the biggest epidemics gripping society today: mental illness and chronic illness and the ways in which they affect relationships, personal identity, and the blueprint of our lives.

Told through the eyes of the author as both a young sibling and a mid-life parent, Julie Fingersh seamlessly weaves together present and past, unlocking the puzzle of her early adulthood with her struggling brother from the vantage point of a mid-life parent on the verge of an empty nest and her next chapter, just as her college-bound daughter’s life suddenly careens off track.

Sparkling with warmth, wit, and lyrical prose, Fingersh provides insight and sustenance for everyone wrestling with mid-life’s ghosts, parenting adult children, and the twin pillagers of fear and the inner critic. Above all, Stay is for readers who want to think, feel, laugh, cry, and perhaps see their own life’s trajectory and path forward with new eyes.

About the authors:

Julie Fingersh is a writer and freelance journalist covering culture, relationships, cooking, wellness, parenting young adult children, and how to lead a more sane and meaningful life. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, The Miami Herald, Grown and Flown, Kansas City Star, and more. Her Substack newsletter, Take My Advice, I’m Not Using It, is a midlife sequel of an award-winning humorist column she wrote for Billboard Publications in New York City in her twenties. Julie has two adult children and lives with her husband in Marin County, California. Read more about Julie and her work at juliefingersh.com.

A well-known voice on S.F. radio for decades, Joanne Greene went on to run Jewish programs at the Osher Marin JCC for eleven years. Currently, she’s the host of the bi-weekly podcast “In This Story…with Joanne Greene” and is the author of By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go, published by She Writes Press, in which she emerges from a life threatening accident with hope and a new embracing of life.

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