RSVP Calendar: Arts & Letters Live: Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt at DMA

Tuesday, March 17, 7:30 p.m.

Written with grace and understanding, and based on more than 20 in-depth interviews and stories as well as personal reflections from Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt herself, The Gift of Forgiveness is about one of the most difficult challenges in life—learning to forgive. The book features experiences from those well known and unknown, including Elizabeth Smart, who learned to forgive her captors; Sue Klebold, whose son, Dylan, was one of the Columbine shooters, learning empathy and how to forgive herself; Chris Williams, who forgave the drunken teenager who killed his wife and child; and Schwarzenegger Pratt's challenges and path to forgiveness in her own life. All provide different journeys to forgiveness and the process—sometimes slow and thorny, sometimes almost instantaneous—by which they learned to forgive and let go.

Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt is a New York Times bestselling author, animal advocate, sister, wife, stepmom, and daughter of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger. As an author, she has skillfully translated her own personal experiences into her books, all of which speak to her generation.