An Afternoon with Maggie Evans Silverstein

***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event. All proceeds will be donated to the Books & Books Literary Foundation.

In Hello I Love You: A Memoir of Childhood and Old Age, I'm looking at the turn life begins to take as you enter old age and how memory, restored with photographs and words, can open a view into one particular life. And though I might bring you into that particular life, I think my peers and those who are beginning to think about growing old, will be able to see something of themselves.

I don’t think writing about loss is just sad. It’s that but it’s other things, too. It’s gratitude for what you have, and, you know this, it’s life. It’s what we have.

Finally, being old can be unexpectedly funny.

Maggie Evans Silverstein is the author of “Double Take: Portraits Over Time,” an Indie-Award-winning photography book with a foreword and an afterword by Pulitzer-Prize winners Madeleine Blais and Dave Barry. A collection of her photographs, “Look at You, Key West”, has been shown in museums and galleries. She was the Contributing Editor for Tropic Magazine, The Miami Herald’s (now former) Sunday magazine. She wrote features and essays that included her photographs. She currently serves as a waitress at the Coconut Grove Crisis Food Pantry on Monday nights.

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