A different book jacket and title that translates roughly into “The Car Is Parked At The Bridge. I Am Sorry. A Father’s Search For Answers To His Daughter’s Suicide.”
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My Upcoming Events For The Week of June 6th
Thursday June 9th from 7-8PM. I will be speaking at Friends For Survival, a bereavement group for suicide survivors, at North Highlands Community Center, 6040 Watt Ave, No Highlands, CA. just off I-80 just north of Sacramento.
Saturday June 11th from 7PM-8PM I’ll be speaking at Copperfield’s Books new store at 999 Grant Avenue in Novato.
PLEASE JOIN US, ESPECIALLY OUR SACRAMENTO FRIENDS!!
Please Join Us Mon. 23rd At Books Inc. Palo Alto!
This coming Monday May 23rd at 7PM I’ll be speaking at Books Inc Palo Alto in the Town & Country Village at 855 El Camino Real.
PLEASE JOIN US!!
My Upcoming Events For The Weeks Of May 16th and May 23rd
Tuesday May 17th from 10-11AM PST. I will be a guest panelist on KQED’s Forum Program/88.5 FM hosted by Michael Krasny.
Wednesday May 18th from 7PM-8PM I’ll be speaking at Books Inc in Alameda located at 1344 Park Street.
Monday May 23rd from 7PM-8PM I’ll be speaking at Books Inc. in Palo Alto located at the Town & Country Village in Palo Alto.
PLEASE JOIN US!!
STAY TUNED FOR MORE MEDIA AND SPEAKING EVENTS!
YouTube Video – My Talk at S.F. Public Library, Thursday April 14, 2016
Last night I gave my usual talk and book reading at the San Francisco Public Library while a video slide show of Casey’s pictures ran behind me. They taped it with production and editing quality that was astonishing. It looks like a TED talk, Charlie Rose interview or KQED production. I love they way they intersperse parts of the slide show with me talking.
Bravo SFPL! Thanks so much for this gift!
Here is the YouTube link. Note: please remember to back up the video to the beginning if it starts a bit later.
UPCOMING RADIO EVENTS: MONDAY MAR 7 2-3PM KPFA-FM/94.1 AND MONDAY MAR 14 10-11AM KQED-FM/88.5.
Please tune in for these upcoming radio events.
Monday Mar. 7 2-3PM on KPFA-FM/94.1 I will be interviewed about adoption and attachment along with internationally renowned adoption expert, therapist and author of the adoption bible, The Primal Wound, Nancy Newton Verrier, on the show “About Health” hosted by Rona Renner, RN. You can also LISTEN LIVE on KPFA.org or listen to the archived show.
Monday Mar. 14 10-11AM on KQED-FM/88.5 I will be on a panel discussion about survivors of suicide on the nationally syndicated “Forum,” hosted by Michael Krasny. You can also LISTEN LIVE on KQED.org or listen to the archived show.
STAY TUNED FOR MORE MEDIA AND SPEAKING EVENTS!
REMINDER: Girl Behind The Door Author Event at Book Passage San Francisco Wed. Mar. 2nd at 6PM!
Please join us for an author event for The Girl Behind The Door, published by Scribner, at Book Passage San Francisco in the Ferry Building on WEDNESDAY MAR. 2nd at 6PM
About The Girl Behind The Door:
Early on Jan. 29, 2008, Casey Brooks drove from her Tiburon home to the Golden Gate Bridge and jumped. Why?
* Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award.
* Winner of the Kindle Award for Non-Fiction.
* Recommended as an Elaine’s Pick.
* Recommended as a Marin Magazine Local Page Turner.
* Featured in Books Inc’s non-fiction titles.
About Scribner:
A premier imprint of Simon & Schuster founded in 1846.
About Book Passage:
One of the Bay Area’s premier booksellers.
Ferry Building Marketplace, 1 Sausalito, San Francisco Ferry Bldg. #42
STAY TUNED FOR MORE EVENTS. ON MONDAY MAR. 7TH AT 2PM JOHN BROOKS AND ADOPTION SPECIALIST, NANCY NEWTON VERRIER, TO BE INTERVIEWED ON “ABOUT HEALTH” WITH RONA RENNER ON KPFA-FM.94.1.
My Op-Ed In The 1/19/16 SF Chronicle
Here is the link to the Chronicle website. (Not sure this link will work.) You may have to zoom in to read this. Sorry!
Please Join Me For An Author Event in Fairfax, Thursday, Nov. 6 @ 7PM!
Dear Friends and Neighbors – The Marin County Library, Fairfax Branch, has been kind enough to invite me to speak a week from today, Thursday, November 6 at 7PM. Our library is located at 2097 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard right across from St. Rita’s Church. I’ll talk about my experience writing my memoir, The Girl Behind The Door, and read a chapter, maybe two.
The library and I hope to see you there!
Thank You!
Well, The Girl Behind The Door has been out now for a little over a month and we’re off to a pretty good start. I’m ranked about 300,000th in sales out of 3,000,000 – a little ways to go – but the reviews have been genuine and terrific.
“I am crying at how much you loved her.”
“John Brooks hands us his heart and soul in this deeply personal account of his and his wife’s unconditional love for and ongoing parenting struggles with their adopted child Casey, who at the age of 17, took her own life.”
“This book is a painfully honest memior of one family’s experience with international adoption and reactive attachment disorder.”
“If tragedy is partly defined as “good intentions gone badly”, then John Brooks’ family story is a showcase of tragic beginnings, tragic circumstances, and tragic endings.”
I’m reaching out to a broader group now and wanted to share this video trailer for The Girl Behind The Door.
Parenting and Attachment 