BOLD Presents: An Author Reading and Story Charming Party by Pema Rocker, Ash and Spirit

Have you ever attended a Story Charming Party? We call it that because we spend an evening charming stories from each other. What starts with a few games and facilitated moments turns into a night of connection, levity, wonder, and depth.

In honor of my new paperback, Ash and Spirit: Freeing Grief and Finding Hope in 31 Days of Memories, Mediumship, and Collective Healing, we’re combining a Story Charming Party with a book reading for the first time. I hope you’ll join us!

About Ash and Spirit

When 30-year-old Pema, one of New York City’s newest residents, ran to the corner to see “how they put out fires in big cities,” she had no way to know she and the people stopped in the street around her were witnessing the start of a national attack, or that the sight would retrigger the painful trauma of her brother’s sudden death when they were teenagers. Neither did she know it would begin an emotional and spiritual journey that tested and transcended physical bounds.

Ash and Spirit travels a story of loss as a teenager, and the search to resolve decades of grief. A narrative collage constructed of interviews, messaging chats, journal entries, pictures, and personal stories that take place over thirty years, Ash and Spirit, represents the dislocated nature of memory and trauma recall. Vivid and detailed moments in time stitch together to tell a whole story of many losses into one for the sake of healing individual and collective grief.

Told from the tender center of both personal loss and collective, this book will be valuable for anyone experiencing loss or grief, for the first time or still. Arrive early to get a chair and an espresso drink. The author will be available for Q&A, discussion, and book signing afterward as well.

This reading is cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.