# Event Details - **Event Name**: Fatherless: A Book Launch Celebration with Alison Storry - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Celebrate Providence author Alison Storry and the launch of Fatherless, her poignant debut memoir of loss, healing and self-discovery.About this EventJoin us for an intimate evening celebrating Providence-based author Alison Storry and the release of her debut memoir, Fatherless.Hosted at JohnnyCakes, a wonderfully unique interior design studio, the evening will offer guests the opportunity to hear Alison read an excerpt from this deeply personal book in her own voice. Following the reading, Alison will answer questions and spend time with guests. Light snacks and beverages will be served.You do not need to know Alison personally to join us. Whether you love memoirs, have been moved by stories of resilience and healing, or simply want to show up for a local writer on a meaningful night, you are warmly invited.ABOUT THE BOOK Fatherless is a poignant memoir of loss, forgiveness and the journey to self-understanding. Alison was seven years old when she learned her father had been murdered, a casualty of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. She was in a friend’s garden. It was August.These are the kinds of details that stay — not the grief itself, which arrives too large for a child to hold, but the ordinary things standing next to it. Within a year she was sent away to boarding school in the English countryside, where she learned what children learn when no one gives them the words for loss: how to build a self that doesn’t need the words at all. It was a useful self. It got her through — through a modeling career across Asia, through marriage entered into, as these things often are, in hope of safety. The safety didn’t hold. Betrayal ended it; divorce followed close behind. And the life she’d spent decades constructing — carefully, competently, brick by brick —finally came apart.What was left, underneath, was the seven-year-old in the garden, still waiting. Fatherless is a retracing all of it — the grief, boarding school, Asia, marriage --without the armor this time. Then an investigator’s letter finds her, carrying word of another woman shaped by the very same loss, from the other side.What Alison discovers is not only the answer she’d been waiting fifty years for. It is grace.----------------“Fatherless is a masterful, heart-wrenching portrait of one woman’s lifelong journey to heal from the trauma of her father’s M**der... With raw vulnerability and lyrical prose, Alison guides the reader through her profound transformation... until she confronts the past and uncovers a path todeep self-understanding.”—CHIP CONLEY,The New York Times bestselling author and MEA founder - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/providence/fatherless-a-book-launch-celebration-with-alison-storry/100002002061852896 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: All Ages - Duration: 2 hours - Location: JohnnyCakes Design - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Providence - **state**: RI - **country**: United States - **location**: JohnnyCakes Design - **lat**: 41.819373 - **long**: -71.430339 - **full address**: JohnnyCakes Design, 378 Broadway, Providence, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Fatherless: A Book Launch Celebration with Alison Storry - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/a503aae38e99c83ce49763a79ee346515344d72eeeb2a7ae27d7d1bdbbe2499b-rimg-w1080-h1080-dc080808-gmir.jpg?v=1791492370 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Fatherless: A Book Launch Celebration with Alison Storry being held? - **A:** Fatherless: A Book Launch Celebration with Alison Storry takes place on Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm at JohnnyCakes Design, 378 Broadway, Providence, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Fatherless: A Book Launch Celebration with Alison Storry? - **A:** Fatherless: A Book Launch Celebration with Alison Storry is organized by Jess Powers. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Fatherless: A Book Launch Celebration with Alison Storry is ideal for party-goers, social butterflies, and anyone looking for a great night out with music, drinks, and good vibes. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Providence, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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