OSCAR WINNER CHRIS COOPER AND SOPRANOS ACTRESS MARIANNE LEONE JOIN BEST-SELLING AUTHOR RANDY SUSAN MEYERS FOR THE JUNE 18 PAPERBACK LAUNCH OF NEW BOOK TO BENEFIT ACCESSPORTAMERICA

Best-selling local author Randy Susan Meyers launches the paperback release of her critically acclaimed book, ACCIDENTS OF MARRIAGE with actress (The Sopranos) Marianne Leone, author of KNOWING JESSE: A MOTHER’S STORY, and Leone’s husband Oscar winner Chris Cooper, on June 18 at 7 p.m. at Bella Luna Restaurant at 284 Amory Street in Jamaica Plain.

This event benefits AccesSportAmerica and is also hosted by Papercuts Bookstore and Westwinds Bookshop. It will include a reading and discussion on “Remarkable Fathers and Family” – just in time for Father’s Day, as well as prizes and entertainment.

AccesSportAmerica is a national nonprofit based in Massachusetts promoting higher function and fitness for children and adults of all disabilities through high-challenge sports and training. Book sales will be matched and donated to AccesSportAmerica.

Highlighting the wide-ranging effects of traumatic brain injury, ACCIDENTS OF MARRIAGE is the story of a Boston family affected by the mother, Madeline’s, brain injury that occurred at the hands of her husband’s angry driving.

The June 18 event at Bella Luna is free to the public.