Dinner, wine, and a literary evening with author & Synergy alum parent Lissa Soep.

Join us for this beautiful evening of food, socializing, and book discussion. Includes dinner, dessert, and wine; the author will share insights and answer questions about her work.

Date:  Saturday, May 11

Time: 6 pm

Place:  The home of Beth Stanley in Glen Park

Cost:  $100.00 per person

Includes a copy of Lissa Soep's new memoir, Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End.

A memoir about friendship, loss, and language—a stunning affirmation of the conversations that shape and sustain us, even in the presence of death.

“Other People’s Words is one of those books that changes you forever. Now I can hear the ‘double voicing’ in my own life: the ways the language of my past—of dear friends and family—has fused into and shapes the language of my present; how it keeps people I have lost with me always.” —Peggy Orenstein

Other People’s Words shows us how we carry within us the language of loved ones who are gone, and how their words can be portals to other times and places. Language—as with love—is boundless, and Other People’s Words is an intimate, original, and profoundly generous look at its power to nurture life amid the wreckage of grief. Dialogues do not end when a friendship or person is gone; instead, they accrue new layers of meaning, showing how the conversations we share with those we love continue after them, and will continue after us.

Lissa Soep is Senior Editor, Audio (Vox Media), Senior Scholar-in-Residence/Special Projects (YR Media, FKA Youth Radio). Lissa mixes her work in journalism and media with research through ten+ years of NSF-backed studies and as a member of a small group of scholars pulled together by the MacArthur Foundation to explore and promote youth participation in our changing world of politics.