Tucson Festival of Books

Caregiver, Heal Thyself


Mary Lou Falcone, Jessi Gold and Maddie Norris come to Tucson with stories about their experience as caregivers ... for better and for worse. As fulfilling as the time may be, caregivers must learn to take care of themselves, too.


Panelists
Mary Lou Falcone

Mary Lou Falcone, author of "I Didn't See It Coming: Scenes of Love, Loss, and Lewy Body Dementia," is internationally known as a classical music publicist/strategist who for 50 years has helped guide the careers of celebrated artists - Van Cliburn, Gustavo Dudamel, Renee Fleming, Sir Georg Solti and James Taylor....

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Jessi Gold

Dr. Jessi Gold is the Chief Wellness Officer of the University of Tennessee system and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.   She is also a fierce mental health advocate and highly sought-after expert in the media on everything from burnout to celebrity self-disclosure....

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Maddie Norris

Maddie Norris, author of "The Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays," earned her MFA at the University of Arizona and, before that, she was the Thomas Wolfe Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

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Books:
I Didn't See It Coming
Scenes of Love, Loss and Lewy Body Dementia
Mary Lou Falcone
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
East End Press
October 2023
ISBN 9781734526899
304 pages
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How Do You Feel?
One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine
Jessi Gold
Science / Medicine / Technology
S&S/Simon Element
October 2024
ISBN 9781982199777
288 pages

The Wet Wound
An Elegy in Essays
Maddie Norris
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
University of Georgia Press
March 2024
ISBN 9780820366685
192 pages
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