NM author Neesha Arter shares her hard reality

It’ll be a homecoming for Neesha Arter when signs her book at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29 at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW. Her debut memoir, “Controlled: The Worst Night of My Life and its Aftermath,” shares the year of her life that followed a harrowing crime. When she was 14 years old, she was sexually assaulted by people she had no reason to mistrust.

She tried, subsequently, to reconcile feelings of guilt and shame by searching for a means of control. In a whirlwind of legal proceedings, family conflicts, and loss of identity, Arter succumbed to anorexia as the only way to find her childhood self in an unraveling world.

Ten years later, she is able to look back with healing insight about the importance of speaking uncomfortable truths.

Arter grew up in Albuquerque and writes for the New York Times and The Daily Beast.

ALSO AT BOOKWORKS: Journalist C.J. Hunt has explored the world to combat the exploding epidemic of obesity and diet-related disease.

His book “The Perfect Human Diet: The Simple Doctor-Proven Solution for the Health and Life You Deserve,” has a companion film that will be shown at 3 p.m. Jan. 3.

The film has exclusive access to the world’s foremost authorities on evolutionary anthropology and the emerging field of human dietary evolution.

Hunt explains a new method of eating to optimize your health based on these breakthrough scientific facts, including detailed grocery shopping advice and great tasting recipes.

The Austin Project Book Club, will discuss “The Letters of Jane Austen” at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 28. There will be tea in honor of Austen’s birthday.