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Book Reading & Signing: Starting with Goodbye
June 5, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
Come meet Lisa Romeo, author of Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss, on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, at 7pm, at the Rutherford Public Library.
When Lisa Romeo’s recently deceased father drops in for “conversations,” her grief takes unexpected turns, inviting her to reconnect with this enigmatic, hard-to-know parent she rarely understood in life.
Searching for meaning, she learns why her complex father – a self-made textile manufacturer who liked poetry, newspapers, solitude, and Las Vegas craps tables – influenced so many of her choices, from career to spouse. As Lisa moves between memory and the unfolding moment, she brings spirited curiosity, fierce honesty, and tender reflection to her experience of Italian-American family dynamics, death rituals, and charged sibling relationships. By forging a new father-daughter “relationship,” her grief transforms. In poignant, often lyrical prose, Starting with Goodbye affirms that even in loss, when we dare to love, it’s never too late.