For many visitors of the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2024, the event is an opportunity to get exciting reads about fantastical far-off places or escaping to meet a wide array of interesting fictional characters., , , , However, for authors like Dawn Smith-Theodore, it is an opportunity to come forward with tough questions, make themselves vulnerable, and all for the sake of helping at least one reader who is facing the same challenges that they had encountered., , , , Smith once w.