Long Beach Township native and author Susan Shapiro Barash will be returning home to discuss her most recently published work, Estranged: How Strained Female Relationships Are Mended or Ended.

Barash will be appearing Monday, July 28 at 3:30 p.m. at the St. Francis Center in Brant Beach; Wednesday, July 30 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center of LBI bazaar in Spray Beach; and Thursday, July 31 at 9 a.m. at Kapler’s Pharmacy in Beach Haven and that afternoon at the Beach Haven Public Library at 1.

“I have always loved writing both forms fiction and nonfiction,” said Barash. “The topic of female friendship break-ups has long intrigued me – especially having written a book on female rivalry, Tripping the Prom Queen, and a book on unhealthy female friends, Toxic Friends.

“I began this project because I was curious to see if anything had shape shifted when it came to very important best…