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Michelle Hébert launches A Good Girl’s Guide to Lying

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Venue:
Open Book Coffee
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3660 Strawberry Hill Street, Halifax. More info
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Join us for the official launch of Michelle Hébert’s memoir, A Good Girl’s Guide to Lying: Losing My Memory, Searching for Truth, & Confronting Complex Trauma (Nimbus). The launch will include an author reading, discussion, Q&A, book signing and sales, and light refreshments.

On paper, Michelle Hébert was a successful, high-functioning woman. But there was a secret about her that nobody knew—one that her own brain was trying to keep from her. One that was destroying her from the inside out. Why couldn’t she recognize herself in mirrors? Why did her mind disconnect from her body for long periods, leaving her to deal with decisions she made while she was dissociated—like finding herself walking down the aisle at a wedding she didn’t remember planning? Why couldn’t she shake the gnawing fear that she’d done something terrible?

With a structure mimicking her fractured memories, this deeply layered story of complex trauma encourages readers to question whose truth society values.

A sometimes heartbreaking, often darkly humorous memoir of identity and resilience, and a compelling testament to the lengths our brains will go to protect us.

RSVP at the link above.

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  • New writers: those with less than two years’ creative writing experience and/or no short-form publications (e.g., short stories, personal essays, or poems in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
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Please keep in mind that each form of creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, writing for young adults, and others) provides you with a unique set of experiences and skills, so you might consider yourself an ‘established author’ in one form but a ‘new writer’ in another.

Occasionally, WFNS uses the phrase “emerging and established writers/authors” to mean ‘writers and authors of all experience levels.’

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