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SUMMARY:The Parts of Him I Kept: Natasha Williams in Conversation about Her New Memoir
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Elting Memorial Library is proud to host Natasha Williams 
 in the Steinberg Room on Wednesday May 7th at 7PM as she discusses her new 
 memoir The Parts of Him I Kept: The Gifts of My Father's Madness. She will 
 be joined in conversation by Dr. Leslie Periera. Join us\, readers\, 
 students/professors of social work\, psychology\, and mental health care 
 providers\; for a reading and conversation about the power of narrative 
 story telling to make sense of growing up in families with mental illness. 
 Dr. Leslie Pereira will guide a conversation about writing and applying a 
 strength based perspective to the dialogue around mental health\, stigma\, 
 and caring for our loved ones. Register if you would like to receive an 
 email reminder the day before the program.\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: "One cold 
 night in April\, Natasha's father drove his car into the frigid water of 
 New York Bay with her two-year-old half-sister in the backseat. She was the 
 one to walk him past the column of hungry reporters demanding an 
 explanation.  The headline in The Daily News read: 'Back from a Watery 
 Grave.'\n\nBut Natasha's experiences growing up with her schizophrenic 
 father in the gritty New York City of the 1970s are not so easily captured 
 in a single headline. How could she possibly convey the power of her 
 father's love in the face of this tragedy? \n\nWilliams' memoir\, The Parts 
 of Him I Kept\, is an intimate account of coming of age in the face of a 
 father's schizophrenic unraveling. Williams investigates the limits of our 
 medical and cultural understanding of schizophrenia while chronicling the 
 shared burden and benefits of caring for a mentally ill family member. In 
 the tradition of Michael Greenberg's Hurry Down Sunshine and Robert 
 Kolker's Hidden Valley Road\, The Parts of Him I Kept asks us to consider 
 the ways mental illness is as much a social issue as a biological 
 condition. \n\nThe Parts of Him I Kept humanizes living with mental illness 
 and illuminates how families find hope\, and even thrive\, in the face of 
 the extraordinary challenge of mental illness."\n\n \n\n \n\nABOUT THE 
 AUTHOR: This is Natasha Williams' debut  book. She has an MA from the 
 University of Pennsylvania and attended the Bread Loaf School of English 
 and the Bread Loaf Writers  Conference. Excerpts and essays have been 
 published in the Bread Loaf Journal\, Change Seven\, LIT\, Memoir 
 Magazine\, Onion River Review\, Writers Read\, Post Road\,  and South 
 Dakota Review. \n\nNatasha WilliamsWriter.com \n\n\nCo-Presenter Bio: "Dr. 
 Leslie Pereira has been a licensed clinical social worker for over 3 
 decades. Her work has spanned the fields of Community Mental Health\, 
 Women's Health\, Academia\, and the Workplace. In addition to her direct 
 practice experience as a therapist\, she has worked as a clinical social 
 work educator\, supervisor and trainer\, a program planner\, and community 
 organizer. She is a former NIMH Research Fellow. For the past 8 years she 
 has worked as an Employee Assistance Program Specialist 
 providing\ncounseling\, support\, training\, and management consulting to 
 employees and organizations across New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley. She 
 leads a monthly Leadership\nSeminar\, "Conversations in Resonant 
 Leadership\," for managers and supervisors\, and maintains a private 
 coaching practice specializing in Women’s Health and\nRelationships."\n\n 
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“A profound meditation on love and family. Natasha 
 Williams offers us a portrait of America at a time when everything was in 
 flux\, when people searched for new ways to live\, and (if they were lucky) 
 ended up simply loving each other.” – Nick Flynn\, Author of Another 
 Bullshit Night in Suck City and Low life\n\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Steinberg Reading Room\, Elting Memorial Library
ORGANIZER;CN="James Frauenberger":MAILTO:jfrauenberger@eltinglibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs
CONTACT;CN="James Frauenberger":MAILTO:jfrauenberger@eltinglibrary.org
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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