Date:  July 16, 2008

Contact:  Robert Graves, Public Services Librarian

Phone:  (310) 458-2201, x5956

Santa Monica Author Rita Lowenthal at the Santa Monica Public Library


Santa Monica, California – The Santa Monica Public Library presents an evening with local author, Rita Lowenthal, on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at 7:00 p.m., in the Main Library’s Multipurpose Room (second floor), 601 Santa Monica Blvd.

 
Rita Lowenthal is the author the memoir, One Way Ticket: Our Son’s Addiction to Heroin, a harrowing chronicle of her son Josh’s tragic descent into drugs and the impact the disease had on his parents and loved ones. Mrs. Lowenthal wrote One Way Ticket in the hopes that parents of addicts will not feel guilty about their children's choices and will instead develop a greater social perspective about their children's plight
 

A book sale and signing will follow.
 

Admission is free. Seating is first come, first served.
 

The Santa Monica Public Library is wheelchair accessible. For special disabled services, call Library Administration at (310) 458-8606 at least one week prior to event.
For more information on this and other Library events, contact the Santa Monica Public Library at (310) 458-8600; or visit the Library’s web site at www.smpl.org.