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“To err is human; to forgive divine” is even more important in these divisive times. But what if the person who hurt you most refuses to apologize or express any regret? That’s the question haunting Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro when the mentor she trusted most betrays her. She ends their relationship, vowing they’ll never speak again. Yet ghosting him doesn’t end her distress. She has screaming arguments with him in her mind, relives their fallout in panicked nightmares and even lights a candle, chanting a secret Yiddish curse to exact revenge.

Critics praised Shapiro’s previous memoirs Five Men Who Broke My Heart and Lighting Up as fiercely honest, fascinating, funny and “a mind-bendingly good read.” Now she returns with a darker, wiser follow up, addressing the universal enigma of blind forgiving.   Shapiro’s new gurus sooth her broken psyche and answer her burning mystery: How can you forgive someone without an apology?  Does she? Should you? 

SUSAN SHAPIRO, an award-winning Manhattan writing professor, freelances for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Salon, Slate, Tablet, Elle, Wired, The Cut and The New Yorker online. She’s the bestselling author/coauthor of many books her family hates, including Unhooked, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, The Byline Bible,  American Shield and The Forgiveness Tour,  out in paperback July 23. Follow her on Instagram @profsue123

PRAISE FOR THE FORGIVENESS TOUR:

“Shapiro chronicles her search for ways to heal after a devastating betrayal in this magnificent work…Writing with insight, humor, and grace, her elegant survey becomes one largely about plumbing the boundless depths of the human heart. This is essential reading.” —Publishers Weekly Starred Review

“Enlightening and universally relevant, the book shows us how to forgive even when it might be impossible to forget.” —Kirkus Reviews