Los Angeles author Carina Chocano will discuss her new book, “You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 14 at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway.
Chocano, a pop culture critic, merges memoir and commentary to explore how our culture shapes ideas about women in an impassioned call to arms.
And on Thursday, Jan. 18, Dr. Willie Parker will discuss his new book, “Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice,” also at Laguna Beach Books at 6 p.m.
Dr. Parker is a Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider caring for women in Mississippi and Alabama. He pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to reveal how he came to believe that helping women in need, without judgment, is precisely the Christian thing to do.