Tracy Strauss

presents

I Just Haven't Met You Yet:
Finding Empowerment in Dating, Love, and Life

This event includes a book signing

Date

May
14
Tuesday
May 14, 2019
7:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning author and writing instructor TRACY STRAUSS for a discussion of her latest book, I Just Haven't Met You Yet: Finding Empowerment in Dating, Love, and Life.

About I Just Haven't Met You Yet

I Just Haven’t Met You Yet details Tracy Strauss’s dating history and her journey to dismantle the effects and stigmas of an abusive past, break free of destructive relationship patterns, and ultimately conquer her fear of truly being seen by the world, flaws and all. The author shares the transformative lessons she learned and self-empowerment she achieved while passing each hurdle along the way to finding the love of her life.

Tracy Strauss helps readers empower themselves by taking a challenging look at the ways the negative events of their lives, including sexual harassment and abuse, have shaped their self-perception and created obstacles to personal success, and how readers can change that troubled self-image along with their (love) lives.

I Just Haven’t Met You Yet is a modern-day journey of the heart. It is a story about taking big risks, changing old habits and beliefs about dating, and speaking back to the naysayers, especially that internal critic, the inner love saboteur. It is a prime mover and the only epistolary memoir cum dating/relationship essay book of its kind.

Praise

"Tracy Strauss answers the dreaded question "How are you still single?" with a narrative that's funny, relatable, genuine, thought-provoking, and universal. She's written more than just a book about dating; I Just Haven't Met You Yet is a narrative about a person's need to be seen—and understood." —Meredith Goldstein, Boston Globe love letters advice columnist

"Tracy Strauss will break your heart. I defy you to put down this disarmingly charming book. A wry narrative turns in and out of light and deep shadow as if she were dancing. Utterly, beautifully honest. It reaches great heights and will make you wish she had always been your friend." —Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels

"In I Just Haven't Met You Yet, Tracy Strauss reminds us of the power of words and memory and honesty and—most of all—the power of hope. This book has one of my favorite last lines that I've read in a long time. But don't cheat and peek at it. Read every single one that comes before it so that when you reach the end, like me you'll be smiling and crying in equal measure." —Ann Hood, bestselling author of The Knitting Circle

Tracy Strauss
Tracy Strauss

Tracy Strauss

The 2015 Writers' Room of Boston Nonfiction Fellow and former essays editor of The Rumpus, Tracy Strauss has been named by Bustle as one of eight women writers with advice to follow. Winner of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for Nonfiction, and a contributor to Glamour, she has been featured on television in her role as a relationship blogger for the Huffington Post. Her essays and articles have appeared in Ms., Salon, The Cut, Poets & Writers Magazine, Writer's Digest Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and Cognoscenti, among other publications. She currently teaches writing at the New England Conservatory and GrubStreet in Boston.

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

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