Tucson Festival of Books

Exposing Family Secrets


At the intersection of mental and chronic illness in families is a desire to hide them from view. Each of our authors has experienced these issues in her own unique way and, in voices that sometimes rely on humor, will share how healing can come from exposing secrets.


Panelists
Freda Epum

Freda Epum is a Nigerian American writer and artist. She is the author of "The Gloomy Girl Variety Show," and two chapbooks, "Input/Output" and "Entryways into memories that might assemble me," which won the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook competition....

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Julie Fingersh

Julie Fingersh is a writer, journalist and, most recently, the author of "Stay: A Story of Family, Love & Other Traumas." Julie’s personal essays, editorials, and reported stories have appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, Businessweek, Grown and Flown and more....

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Sarah LaBrie

Author of "No One Gets to Fall Apart," Sarah LaBrie' is a Texas writer, whose libretti have been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Her fiction appears in Guernica, The Literary Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books....

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Books:
The Gloomy Girl Variety Show
A Memoir of Ailments, Apartments, and African (American) Womanhood
Freda Epum
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Feminist Press
January 2025
ISBN 9781558613102
224 pages
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Stay
A Story of Family, Love, and Other Traumas
Julie Fingersh
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2024
ISBN 9781538195284
264 pages
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No One Gets to Fall Apart
A Memoir
Sarah LaBrie
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
HarperCollins/Harper
October 2024
ISBN 9780063280724
224 pages
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