Boston Book Festival 2019

A true life story, well told, can be as riveting as any novel. The memoirists who will read in this session offer glimpses into four very different--but equally fascinating--lives. In If You Love Me, Maureen Cavanagh brings her poignantly personal story as a mother to bear on her work as an advocate for families coping with opioid addiction. Mothers and daughters also figure in Adrienne Brodeur's Wild Game, in which a teenage Adrienne was enlisted to orchestrate her mother’s infidelity and spent years coping with the repercussions. Family secrets are also at the center of William Dameron’s The Lie, a memoir about the hard-won battle to embrace his identity as a gay man--only to have his identity stolen for use in a catfishing scam. Finally, Susan Lewis Solomont’s Lost and Found in Spain will have listeners longing for their own Iberian adventure, as the wife of a former US Ambassador recounts how her time in that country expanded her sense of self and community. Our host for this session of memorable readings is Sean Tuohy, co-host of the Writer’s Bone podcast.