The Gift of Forgiveness

Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt is a New York Times bestselling author, animal advocate, daughter, sister, wife, and step-mom. As a passionate animal advocate, Katherine works as an ambassador for Best Friends Animal Society and the ASPCA, lending her time, voice, and energy to spread awareness about animal rescue. As an author, Katherine has skillfully translated her own personal experiences into all four of her books that speak to her generation. Katherine lives with her family in Los Angeles.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

[The Gift of Forgiveness] will spark conversations across families, across friendships, at workplaces, everywhere. Maria Shriver

A fresh, inspiring book on learning how to forgive, with firsthand stories from those who have learned to let go of resentment and find peace.

"When we learn to embrace forgiveness, it opens us up to healing, hope, and a new world of possibility." Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

Written with grace and understanding and based on more than twenty in-depth interviews and stories as well as personal reflections from Schwarzenegger Pratt herself, The Gift of Forgiveness is about one of the most difficult challenges in life learning to forgive. Here, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt shows us what we can learn from those who have struggled with forgiveness, some still struggling, and others who have been able to forgive what might seem truly unforgivable. 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 of course Schwarzenegger Pratt's own 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.

The Gift of Forgiveness is a perfect blend of personal insights, powerful quotations, and hard-won wisdom for those seeking a way to live with greater acceptance, grace, and peace.

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HARDCOVER AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: We had an excellent response to the hardcover, and despite Covid cancelling her extensive in-person tour, Schwarzenegger Pratt pursued an aggressive online tour, resulting in the book hitting the bestseller list and selling nearly 70,000 copies across all formats, with high engagement over multiple social platformsto boot.INSPIRATIONAL BOOK ON A UNIVERSAL TOPIC: As we have seen with I've Been Thinking…, there is a huge hunger for books about what matters in life. Forgiveness is one of those perennially important topics that touches everyone at some point, and learning to deal with it can change anyone's life for the better.HIGH-PROFILE AUTHOR: Daughter of actor and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Maria Shriver, she recently married actor Chris Pratt, and is now pregnant with their first child. We can expect wide media coverage for the book not only because of its subject, but because of Pratt's network and celebrity.