in conversation with memoirist Melissa Cistaro, author of Pieces of My Mother

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You are invited to virtually join author Deborah Lott in conversation with author Melissa Cistaro. They will be discussing Lott's recently released memoir and and also refer to Cistaro's 2015 memoir - both books examine fraught family relationships.

Author Deborah A. Lott's Don't Go Crazy Without Me tells the tragicomic coming of age story of a girl who grew up under the magnetic spell of her outrageously eccentric father. --"A candid, unsettling family portrait of madness and enduring love." —Kirkus Reviews

Deborah A. Lott's memoirs, essays, and reportage have been published in the Rumpus, Salon, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review, Los Angeles Times, StoryQuarterly, the Good Men Project, the nervous breakdown, and many other places. Her family's legacy of hypochondria was featured on NPR's This American Life. Her first book, In Session: the Bond between Women and their Therapists, offered an unprecedented look at psychotherapy from the perspective of clients interviewed by the author. Her essays have been thrice named as "notables of the year" by Best American Essays. She teaches creative writing and literature at Antioch University, Los Angeles, where she serves as faculty advisor to Two Hawks Quarterly.com.

Melissa Cistaro is the author of the award-winning memoir Pieces of My Mother (US edition) and the Canadian bestseller Without My Mother (HarperCollins Canada). Her stories, essays and interviews have appeared in The New Ohio Review, Brevity, The Huffington Post, PBS: To the Contrary, Good Housekeeping and the anthologies Love and Profanity and Cherished. Melissa mentors writers and teaches memoir writing workshops in the Bay Area and beyond.

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