Forgive and Remember: A Conversation with Susan Shapiro

WHAT WOULD YOU DO if the person who hurt you most refused to say they were sorry? Could you forgive anyway? Best-selling author Susan Shapiro explores this universal question in her intriguing, insightful, all-too-relatable new book The Forgiveness Tour, out this past January. In her often-hilarious previous memoir Lighting Up (Random House, 2005), Shapiro, a New […] The post Forgive and Remember: A Conversation with Susan Shapiro appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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‘In the Country of Women’: Featured Nonfiction from Susan Straight

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