Offsite Reading & Conversation: JOE MANGANIELLO "Bloodlines"

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Click to get your tickets White Whale is absolutely rabid in our enthusiasm to host Joe Manganiello, famed werewolf Alcide in True Blood and famed...abdominal muscles...Big Dick Richie in Magic Mike. In addition to many other acting roles, Manganiello is a director, producer, author, screenwriter, and native Pittsburgher. His newest book, Bloodlines, a memoir, delves into his own personal and family history fully for the first time. This offsite event will be held at the First Unitarian Church in Shadyside. ABOUT THE BOOK In this gripping memoir, actor Joe Manganiello, star of True Blood and Magic Mike, reveals the previously undisclosed health ordeal—marked by multiple near-death experiences and medical crises—that led him beyond medicine and into a remarkable, globe-spanning quest that revealed answers about his ancestry, inherited trauma, and the deeper histories we carry. Joe Manganiello seemed to have it all: a soaring career, a new marriage, and what many considered, the best physique in Hollywood. Then, without warning, his body began to fail him. A cascade of autoimmune-related illnesses attacked his skin, thyroid, eyes, lungs, and digestive system, plunging him into a seven-year battle, plagued by chronic pain, a life-saving org

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White Whale Bookstore

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