“The Forgiveness Tour: How To Find the Perfect Apology”; a Zoom conversation with author Susan Shapiro about her book and its significance as the High Holy Days approach. Author Susan Shapiro will be joined by our very own Manny Mandel, who is featured in her book. 

Please register below for the Zoom link and to submit questions for the author.

Susan Shapiro, an award-winning writer and professor, freelances for the NY Times, Washington Post, WSJ, LA Times, NY Magazine, Salon, Elle, Oprah, Wired & New Yorker online. She's the bestselling author/coauthor of 17 books her family hates like Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Unhooked, The Bosnia List and her recent memoir The Forgiveness Tour. She lives with her scriptwriter husband in Manhattan and uses her writing/publishing guides The Book Bible and Byline Bible to teach her wildly popular "instant gratification takes too long" courses at The New School, NYU, Columbia University and in private classes & seminars - now online. Follow her on Twitter at @susanshapironet, Instagram at @Profsue123 or email ProfSue123@gmail.com.

Emanuel (Manny) Mandel and his mother, along with other Hungarian Jews, were chosen to be part of an exchange negotiated by the Relief and Rescue Committee with the Nazis. They were to be traded for trucks and other goods. Manny spent six months in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 12, but he considers himself lucky. Manny was allowed to stay with his mother and they were not forced to do labor. 

Susan Shapiro is the bestselling author/coauthor of books her family hates like Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Unhooked and her recent memoir The Forgiveness Tour. She lives in Manhattan and uses her writing/publishing guides The Book Bible and Byline Bible to teach her popular "instant gratification takes too long" courses at The New School, NYU, Columbia University and in private classes & seminars - now online. Follow her on Twitter at @susanshapironet or Instagram at @Profsue123. 
 
Here’s some short pieces you can share, one that ran in Salon that led to the book, the chapters on Manny and Gary (in slightly different form) and one that ran in Tablet and was nominated for a Deadline journalism award. 
 
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/holidays/articles/twelve-steps-of-forgiveness-yom-kippur
 
https://www.salon.com/2016/10/11/the-forgiveness-tour-when-the-only-thing-better-than-hearing-im-sorry-is-saying-it/
 
https://therevealer.org/the-forgiveness-tour-can-you-forgive-a-whole-continent-who-betrayed-you/
 
https://therevealer.org/forgiving-the-unforgivable/