Join Daróg Wine Bar for the launch of “In My Skin” a novel by local author Erin Lodes. This powerful debut novel, shaped by the author’s own mental health struggles, delves into the complexities of self-harm and self-identity.

Following the story of Kara Winterson in her sophomore year in college, it confronts sensitive themes with honesty and depth, offering a poignant exploration of mental health and the quest for self-acceptance. Join them as they celebrate the launch of this thought-provoking and compelling story.

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In My Skin: “In her sophomore year of college, Kara Winterson is coming undone. She’s not speaking to her best friend Shush, her boyfriend Eric broke up with her, and she’s on the verge of losing her scholarship.

But she’s fine. Really, she’s fine.

She’ll avoid Shush and the rumors she’s spreading about a predatory professor, get Eric back, and somehow not fail out of college. She’ll cope the way she always has. With the sharp edge of a razor blade writing stories into her skin.

Until Shush reveals a terrible secret and the one way Kara has learned to hold herself together becomes what tears her apart. And somewhere, in the wreckage of everything she thought she knew, she starts the hardest thing she’s ever done: writing herself a new story.”

Event admission is FREE, places are limited, Booking is recommended.