"How Should a Body Be?" Author Discussion with Bethany Meloche

Tue, 03/20/2018 - 2:41pm

When: March 15, 2018 at the Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

Writer and motivational speaker Bethany Meloche brings her inspirational, funny, and relatable brand of storytelling to her memoir, How Should a Body Be?, a coming-of-age story about growing up in Michigan and uncovering a horrible new truth in an old family secret.

At age twelve, Bethany discovers the reason her grandmother wears leg braces—and it has something to do with how Bethany herself has started tripping, falling, and losing her grasp on objects. The cause? Charcot-Marie-Tooth, an inherited genetic disorder that torpedoed her once-idyllic childhood.

Now a world traveler and chronic adventurer, Bethany shares in this presentation that life’s most valuable lessons can be learned in the simplest of things: buying a slice of pizza, going on a first date, or crossing a busy street. Teens and grandparents all relate to Bethany’s sense of humor and brutal honesty. Her stories are about living, really living, with exactly what we are given—no more, no less.

How Should a Body Be? is a question everyone asks themselves, often repeatedly. Spend time asking and answering this question with Bethany. You’ll definitely laugh, you may even cry, but you’ll truly be glad you spent time with this master storyteller.

Raised in Ann Arbor, Bethany graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and currently lives in London where she writes and goes for long walks with her husband.