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5:00 pm EST
September 20, 2026

Non-Fiction

Free

The Power of Staying and the Power of Parting (In Person)

Three writers share intimate portraits of the ways mental illness and traumatic family dysfunction deeply impacted their lives. Meet Eamon Dolan, Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster and author of The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family Estrangement; Meg Kissinger, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of the bestselling memoir, While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence; and Natasha Williams, author of the memoir The Parts of Him I Kept: The Gifts of My Father’s Madness.

POWERHOUSE Arena – 28 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 – accessible entrance & restroom

https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-panel-the-power-of-staying-and-the-power-of-parting/

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