In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week, Tompkins County Public Library and the National Alliance on Mental Illness Finger Lakes (NAMI-FL) will host author and advocate Karen Winters Schwartz for a reading and signing of her latest book “The Chocolate Debacle,” October 4 at 2:30 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room.
The author of three novels about mental
illness, Schwartz, of Marietta (Onondaga County), uses her books and
presentations to facilitate discussion about the need for empathy and the
devastating effects of the negative stigma associated with mental
illness. Her latest, “The Chocolate Debacle,” is an emotionally-charged
murder mystery.
While Schwartz's stories are fictional, they are
based on real life people and their experiences. Her book “Where Are the
Cocoa Puffs?: A Family’s Journey Through Bipolar Disorder“ is about her own
family’s mental health journey; both of her daughters experienced mental
illness—bipolar disorder and schizophrenia—as teens. In “Reis’s
Pieces: Love, Loss, and Schizophrenia” Schwartz humanizes the experiences
of both the afflicted person and those around him.
Schwartz is the president of NAMI Syracuse and a
sought-after speaker for mental health association events and conferences
across the country. Her Library presentation is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Carrie
Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
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