Peggy Orenstein Launches Her New Memoir, "Unraveling"

Bestselling author PEGGY ORENSTEIN visits Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore on Tuesday January 24th to launch her lively, funny new memoir, Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater. Peggy will read from and discuss her book, which recounts her decision to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and how, in the process, she discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. 

PEGGY ORENSTEIN is the New York Times bestselling author of Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Don’t Call Me Princess, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Waiting for Daisy, Flux, and Schoolgirls. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and AFAR, her work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and other publications, and she has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered and PBS NewsHour. Her TED Talk has been viewed over 5.7 million times.