Author Reading w/ Shanda McManus & Athena Dixon! - Saturday, August 29 at 2:00 PM at Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mount Airy, West, PhiladelphiaMount Airy, West

Author Reading w/ Shanda McManus & Athena Dixon!

Saturday, August 29 at 2:00 PM·2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.·Mount Airy, West·Big Blue Marble Bookstore

Author Reading w/ Shanda McManus & Athena Dixon!

Posted to Mount Airy, West on August 17, 2026

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Sat, Aug 29 at 2pm – 3pm

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Big Blue Marble Bookstore

551 Carpenter Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19119

Please help us in welcoming local author, physician, and advocate Shanda McManus as she releases her newest memoir, Brother Epistles. Engaging with her brother’s death in Philadelphia over 30 years ago by returning to the memories of their North Philly upbringing. Through a series of letters of voices, McManus adresses the issues and violence communities continue to contend with in the city of bro...

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