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January's Read and Author Event
January's Read and Author Event
Unfixed by Kimberly Warner
“It was a great book!! Thank you for writing the memoir 💚. You are an inspiration.”
HUGE heartfelt thank you to the amazing Kimberly Warner for being our first author in our series.
About the Author
Kimberly Warner is a filmmaker, author, and patient advocate whose work explores what it means to live fully in a body that doesn’t always feel well. After studying pre-med and biology at Colorado College and pursuing graduate training in naturopathic and classical Chinese medicine, she veered from a clinical path toward a creative one, trading diagnostics for documentary and turning questions of health into stories of meaning.
In 2015, a rare neurological condition, Mal de Débarquement Syndrome, upended her sense of gravity and direction, quite literally. That seismic shift became the seed of Unfixed, a multimedia platform she founded to amplify stories of people living with chronic illness and disability. Since then, her work has grown into a celebrated portfolio of award-winning docu-series, short films, podcasts, memoir and essays—all championing the radical notion that healing and brokenness can coexist. That sometimes broken is the fix.
Kimberly’s storytelling has earned honors from the Invisible Disabilities Association, HealtheVoices, Rainbow Advocacy, and Life on the Level. She has screened at Harvard Medical School, contributed to innovative medical curricula, and serves on advisory boards that center the patient’s voice in health care and design.
She lives in rural Oregon with her husband, David, where they tend their small farm between creative projects. When she’s not editing films, harvesting calendula, or writing for her beloved Substack audience, she’s practicing what she preaches: loosening her grip, staying curious, and letting uncertainty become a place of peace.
Her debut book, Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home (Empress Editions, October 2025), earned a Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick and quickly became a bestseller. It is now finding its way into the hands and hearts of readers everywhere searching for steadiness inside their own unsteady lives.
Unfixed, by Kimberly Warner
Our inaugural selection, Unfixed, is a deeply human memoir that explores resilience, uncertainty, and what it means to keep going when life doesn’t follow a neat or predictable path. Through honest storytelling and reflection, Kimberly invites readers to sit with the unknown, challenge assumptions about healing and progress, and find meaning even when things remain unresolved. It’s a moving blend of vulnerability and hope—and the perfect starting point for our first discussion.
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February's Read and Author Event
February's Read and Author Event
“Get ready to have your emotions rocked by this moving family saga about a couple’s enduring love and the son who feels left out of their story.”
—TODAY.com
This is a Love Story: This story begins at the end. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together to keep them going— reminding them of all they’ve built and all they’ve overcome. Readers follow them when they first meet in Central Park at Tavern on the Green, as starry-eyed young lovers and aspiring artists—Abe a writer, Jane a painter. Soon they find themselves as frustrated and exhausted parents, later as creatives watching their careers
take flight. From the outside, their lives seem ideal, but the years bring undeniable struggle—depression, temptation, failure, denial, terminal illness, and more.
Readers become close not only with Abe and Jane but also the people who leave indelible marks on their lives. Alice is Abe’s determined college student looking for a love story of her own, threatening to derail everything. Max is their son, whose belief that his mother chose art over parenthood has led to his avoidance of love and intimacy at all costs.
The rotating perspectives of This is a Love Story paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself. Abe and Jane’s voices interweave with Alice’s, Max’s, and even that of Central Park—the beating heart of the novel. It’s a place blooming with love and art, but whose corners and shadows also hold heartbreak and loss. Here, readers see the awe-inspiring diversity of New York City—and the world—as the most privileged people move alongside the most impoverished. Those coming into their own and those unraveling at the seams. Each character glimpsed within the Park reveals a nuanced truth about humanity.
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