Susanna Sonnenberg – LIVE on BookTrib Jan. 31
BookTrib Presents
an opportunity to meet New York Times bestselling author
Susanna Sonnenberg
to answer your questions and discuss her new book SHE MATTERS A Life In Friendships
January 31, 1:00 pm ET
Praise for SHE MATTERS A Life In Friendships
This memoir of female friendships inspired a parlor game I suspect many readers will want to play — musing about the friends who shaped our own lives. The first best friend, the one to whom you clung and whispered all your secrets, and then outgrew. The big-sister friend, who married before you, had children before you and showed you her way of navigating those passages. 
The friend who let you down, who vanished during a crisis, and the one who stayed by your side. The friend you wronged without understanding how. The friend you simply had fun with, and the one you called when you were in despair.
–Susan Chira, New York Times
The initial spark for the memoir was reuniting with a childhood friend via Facebook. “We friended each other and we went back and forth and we were so excited,” Sonnenberg says. “And then we got together and it was really quite anticlimactic, because that’s not what friendship is.”
“Sonnenberg’s strikingly honest depictions of tumultuous female alliances and confessions about friendships are both moving and relatable; her depth of reflection and incandescent prose marks this exceptional memoir as a must-read to share among friends.”
– Publishers Weekly
“With remarkable candor, wit, and wisdom, Susanna Sonnenberg fearlessly examines her female friendships since childhood, brilliantly articulating the ways each sustained, sometimes devastated and ultimately defined her. She Matters: A Life in Friendships is a dazzling, poetic love letter to what women share, an unforgettable memoir you’ll immediately want to pass along to friends.”
– Kate Walbert, author of A Short History of Women
“She Matters is so finely nuanced, so joyously serious, so wildly playful–to live with it, page by page, is a deep pleasure. Sonnenberg is also so willing to push below the surface of what we call “friendship” (a surface, alas, most of us are willing to exist upon). Near the end, when we encounter the phrase “A perfect thing from dread pain,” we recognize that is what we have in our hands–a perfect thing.”
– Nick Flynn, author of The Reenactments
“Sonnenberg dances close to the fire on every page, unmasking female friendship as a liberating, dangerous and rigorous art. She Matters renders the messy self with gorgeous clarity. It’s the truest, most human book I’ve read all year – generous, hilarious, ecstatic and profound.”
– Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution