Join us at the Woodbridge Main Library as we welcome local author Nina Sharma!
Nina will discuss her hilarious and moving memoir, The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown, written in a series of interconnected essays about love and allyship, told through one Asian and Black interracial relationship. She will be joined by Tara Sarath and Faria Ali, both will help lead the conversation as we learn how Nina developed her debut memoir.
Registration is required! Please register online or by calling 732-634-4450.
About the Book
In The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown, Nina Sharma chronicles in a series of interconnected essays her and Quincy’s love story. In doing so, she examines how their Black and Asian interracial relationship becomes the lens through which she understands the world and what allyship truly means.
Coming of age in the 90s and early aughts, Sharma recalls her parents talking about the racism they encountered as immigrants, but as she enters adulthood, she confronts the paradox of her family’s disappointment when she starts dating a Black man.
About the Author
Nina Sharma’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Electric Literature, Longreads, and The Margins. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, she served as the programs director at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and currently teaches at Columbia and Barnard College. She is a proud cofounder of the all–South Asian women’s improv group Not Your Biwi. She lives in New York City.
About the Speakers
Tara Sarath is a writer and karaoke enthusiast, based in NYC. She has read around town and is part of a forthcoming anthology of Avatar the last Airbender poetry. She co-organizes SubDrift NYC, a 10+ year old monthly open mic (IG @subdriftnyc). She grew up going to the Menlo Park Mall. IG: @bsides_the_wench.
Faria Ali is a technocratic lyrical essayist living between Brooklyn and Central Jersey. She writes about the in-between things and tries to include at least one reference to Jersey tomatoes in every significant creative output. She is working on a memoir about being a southasian art blob. She grew up going to Quakerbridge Mall.
Check out her interview with Penguin Random House where she shouts out the Woodbridge Public Library HERE!