Meet and mingle with the authors and find your next great read!
Join an incredible conversation with local authors Ann Hood and Rosanne Annoni
Tickets include light refreshments, a meet-and-greet with the authors, followed by an author discussion, audience Q&A, and book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
About the Book
At the age of ten, Rosanne Annoni had a vision of Christ calling her to become a nun—only to have her devout Catholic mother respond to this news with a slap across the face. Traversing the time between that childhood vision and a solitary winter in Pema Chodron’s cabin at Gampo Abbey, Unfolding the Heart weaves together raw personal storytelling, spiritual discovery, and psychological insight. Through the highs of spiritual clarity and the depths of trauma, she searches relentlessly for her true path—and finds it not in renunciation, but in presence. Spanning decades of grief, motherhood, cancer, and healing, this memoir explores the messy beauty of a life lived with courageous self-inquiry. For spiritual seekers, healing professionals, or anyone navigating loss, midlife change, or a desire for inner truth, Unfolding the Heart is a cathartic, hopeful story of letting go, leaning in, and discovering that spiritual path isn’t somewhere far away—
it’s right here, within.
Praise
“Rosanne Annoni takes us with her on her quest for true nature, navigating childhood wounds, missteps and misadventures, marriage and motherhood, and friendship and grief with honesty, grace, and forgiveness. We can all learn from Annoni as we, too, stumble through our messy lives on our own paths to true nature.”
—Ann Hood , New York Times best-selling author of The Knitting Circle
About the Authors
Rosanne Annoni was a successful psychotherapist for thirty-five years in the Bay Area before becoming an ordained teacher of the Diamond Approach in 2000. She has taught students and mentored teachers in the United States, the UK, and the EU. In 2024, she was awarded an Emerging Writer Fellowship from Aspen Words. She is married, has one son, and lives with her husband and dog on Cape Cod.
Ann Hood is the author of more than a dozen books of memoir and fiction, including the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most, The Red Thread, and The Knitting Circle. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York.