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Launch Event for Meredith Maran's new book: MY LIE: A TRUE STORY OF FALSE MEMORY
Berkeley Arts & Letters Presents
HOW DO WE COME TO BELIEVE LIES?
Wednesday, September 22
7:30 PM
SF Chronicle Books Editor John McMurtrie and Meredith Maran discuss
HOW DO WE COME TO BELIEVE LIES?
Introduction by
AYELET WALDMAN
At age 37, Meredith Maran -- an award-winning journalist and mother of two -- accused her father of sexual abuse. Ten years later she realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent.
Throughout the 80s and 90s, a sex-abuse panic spread across the country, beginning with the infamous McMartin preschool trial that sent hundreds of innocents to jail. During this time, untold number of Americans became convinced that they'd repressed memories of unspeakable childhood sexual abuse, and then recovered those memories in therapy. Fathers, grandfathers, uncles, even mothers were falsely accused. Families were and remain deeply wounded and even destroyed. Maran's story of this modern-day witch hunt as it played out in one woman's life and family is also a tightly wound psychological, cultural, and neuroscientific portrait of America at a very particular time.
My Lie, a wrenchingly honest, profoundly human account of living a daughter's nightmare, asks how such a grievous mistake could have been made. And more shockingly, how could tens of thousands of other accomplished, middle-class, thirty-something women like Maran come to believe the same lie at the same time? What has neuroscience discovered about the brain's capacity to create false memories and encode false belief? And what are the 'big lies' gaining traction in American culture today and how can we keep them from taking hold?
Joining Meredith in conversation this evening are Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother and Red Hook Road, who will offer introductory remarks, and San Francisco Chronicle books editor John McMurtrie, our interviewer.
$12 advance ($6 students with ID and Hillside Club members), $15 (all) at the door
Online at Brown Paper Tickets on 800-838-3006
Book signing and Champagne reception follow
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LocationHillside Club
2286 Cedar Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
United States
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