Author Talk: Julianna Glasse

Author Talk: Julianna Glasse ***** We’re thrilled to welcome Julianna Glasse to Bedford Books! She’ll be in conversation with Fran Hauser to discuss her new book, This Is What Happens When Women Read. Julianna Glasse is a former Christian pop star turned founder and CEO of This Is What Happens When Women Read, a global foundation for women's liberation through education and community, located in New York City. She is an alumna of Oxford's Saïd Business School and partnered with the school to fund scholarships that give women the means to build independent, self-directed futures. Books will be available for sale and signing, and light refreshments will be served. Your ticket includes a $20 shopping credit to use at the event. ABOUT THE BOOK “In telling her story, Julianna Glasse blazes a trail for every woman who has ever felt oppressed by religion and the patriarchy and muted by other people’s rules and judgment. This is a page-turning, sexy, and eye-popping memoir of liberation. I couldn’t put it down.”—Chelsea Handler, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Life Will Be the Death of Me At the peak of her fame, Julianna Glasse seemed to have everything she wanted: a successful career as a Christian pop singer and author, a high-profile marriage, and a respected place in the evangelical community that had shaped her understanding of herself and the world. But beneath the surface, questions she could no longer ignore began to challenge everything she had spent decades learning, teaching, and defending. The books she started to read opened doors she could not shut. The certainties she had inherited over her lifetime no longer felt certain. She came to see how fear had shaped so many of her choices, and how freedom often begins with a question. In this deeply personal memoir, Julianna writes of her very public and painful split from both the church and her husband—the self-hatred, depression, shame, and suicidal impulses that almost destroyed her; the books she read that inspired her to embrace life as an autonomous, independent woman and pursue her education at the University of Oxford; and, finally, her path to self-discovery and purpose. This Is What Happens When Women Read is for anyone who has outgrown a belief, a relationship, a role, or a version of themselves—and is beginning to imagine what comes next.