An Evening with Jenny Lawson:Broken (In the Best Possible Way)In Conversation with Judy Blume, NYT Bestselling Author and Owner, Books & Books at The Studios of Key WestZoom Author Talk & Q&AA book purchase is required to access the stream. All books include a signed bookplate and will be shipped from Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL. Shipping is only available to the US destinations. Books will be shipped after the event and can take 7 – 10 business days to receive due to Covid-related USPS delays!Presented in partnership with the National JCC Literary Consortium.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson comes her most personal book yet.As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty–but also with brutal humor. Jenny discusses the frustration of dealing with her insurance company in “An Open Letter to My Insurance Company,” which should be an anthem for anyone who has ever had to call their insurance company to try and get a claim covered. She tackles such timelessly debated questions as “How do dogs know they have penises?” We see how her vacuum cleaner almost set her house on fire, how she was attacked by three bears, business ideas she wants to pitch to Shark Tank, and why she can never go back to the post office. Of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor―the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball―is present throughout.A treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter.Jenny Lawson is an award-winning humorist known for her great candor in sharing her struggle with mental illness. She lives in Texas with her husband and daughter and was constantly “buying too many books” (“Not a real thing,” she insists), so she decided to skip the middleman and just started her own bookshop, which also serves booze because books and booze are what magic is made of. She has previously written Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy, both of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. She also wrote You Are Here, which inexplicably made it onto the New York Times bestseller list in spite of the fact that it was basically a very fun coloring book. She would like to be your friend unless you’re a real asshole. And yes, she realizes that this whole paragraph is precisely the reason she shouldn’t be allowed to write her own bio.EVENT RECORDINGS: Event recording for ticket holders will be available 24 hours after the event for a limited time; please email bookfestival@atlantajcc.org if you would like a copy.On-demand recording of the event may be purchased on this ticketing page after the program.Have a Comcast email? Please refer to this guide to change your spam preferences so your emails with links won’t be blocked.
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