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Meet the Author: Jessica Lamb-Shapiro

The daughter of a widowed child psychologist and parenting author Jessica Lamb-Shapiro grew up immersed in the culture of self-help books and pamphlets and board games and gadgets and endless jargon-filled conversations about feelings.

It wasn’t until she hit her thirties that Jessica began to wonder: if all this self-improvement arcana was as helpful as it promised to be, why wasn’t she better adjusted? She had a flying phobia, hadn’t settled down, and didn’t like to talk about her feelings.

Join Jessica at a release party for her book Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture. There will be a reading, audience Q-and-A and book signing.











When: Tue., Jan. 7, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Where: BookCourt
163 Court St., Brooklyn

Price: Free
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The daughter of a widowed child psychologist and parenting author Jessica Lamb-Shapiro grew up immersed in the culture of self-help books and pamphlets and board games and gadgets and endless jargon-filled conversations about feelings.

It wasn’t until she hit her thirties that Jessica began to wonder: if all this self-improvement arcana was as helpful as it promised to be, why wasn’t she better adjusted? She had a flying phobia, hadn’t settled down, and didn’t like to talk about her feelings.

Join Jessica at a release party for her book Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture. There will be a reading, audience Q-and-A and book signing.

Buy tickets/get more info now