The Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love, connection and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents — from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil, to academia, the Ivy league, & the study of Eastern medicine.
Meet the author Megan Griswold:
- Wednesday, March 27th
6:00pm Barnes & Noble Preston Dallas, TX - Thursday, March 28th
7:00pm Half Priced Books Dallas, TX - Friday, March 29th
7:00pm Brazos Books Houston, TX - Saturday, March 30th
11:00am – 1:00pm The Twig San Antonio, TX
The premise of the book documents one women’s willingness to try just about any remedy available to womankind for the sake of seeking spiritual happiness. Her story begins at age 7 when she asked Santa for a mantra.
The book follows Megan’s 15,000-hour, four-decade, six content quest for self, connection and peace of mind — from the glaciers of Patagonia to the psychotropics of Brazil — with 290+ mind, body, spirit experiments in the middle of a marriage that blew up and almost broke her. At turns funny, self-deprecating and vulnerable, it’s what Alexandra Fuller calls, “part medicine for our time, part balm for our collective wounds, part instruction manual.”
She lives half of the year in a yurt in Wyoming, the other half in Venice Beach, CA. She’s funny sassy and smart, you can watch her in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbHVaA2QYus
In addition to her irreverent self-deprecating voice, the unique structure of the book itself also sets it apart: every chapter is a new therapy — the purpose, cost, equipment needed, down to rating ‘the humiliation factor’ required for that modality. Each therapy (many crazy) becomes the lens through which her story unfolds, and a page turner when learning of her husband’s shocking arrest.
