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Title: Explora Books Features Margherita Gale Harris’s My Side of the Bed at MIBF 2026

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 3rd Nov 2026 - MIBF, the Philippines’ longest-running and largest book fair, carried the 2026 theme “Get Lit: Reading in a New Light” across a five-day run that drew over 160 exhibitors across two floors of the SMX Convention Center. The fair’s official schedule listed over forty-nine special events, including author signings, the School World segment for educators, and the Book Development Association of the Philippines’ Gintong Aklat Awards.Harris’s memoir takes up a similar idea, revisiting a life through revelations that alter what had once seemed settled. Framed against a backdrop that opens before the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor and runs into the twenty-first century, the book traces how the social taboos of her generation—around sexuality, mental health, and divorce—shaped what she could and could not say out loud for decades. At its center is her marriage: she and Mark, a physician later ordained an Episcopal priest, wed in 1965 and built what appeared from the outside to be a stable life —children, careers, a twenty-fifth-anniversary vow renewal attended by many of the same friends who had stood at their original wedding.Only later did Harris learn what had been withheld throughout the marriage—a hidden sex addiction and a sexual orientation her husband had spent decades concealing, even from himself. The marriage ended in divorce, finalized in December 2000, but the reckoning did not end there.Mark’s suspension from holy orders drew Harris into a prolonged dispute with her diocese over canon law and her position as a divorced woman within the Episcopal Church, a process she documents alongside her own account of decades of unacknowledged anxiety dating back to childhood.The memoir’s later chapters follow Harris through the...

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