One Bellevue One Book: Sensory Friendly Watch Party for Sonora Jha's Author Talk

About this event

Meeting Room. Experience Sonora Jha’s Author Talk in a low-sensory environment. The event will be streamed in the Newport Way Library meeting room with low volume, captions, and low lighting. Refreshments, fidget items, and low-stimulation activities will be available. The author talk begins at 3pm, but please feel free to arrive early to get comfortable. Intemperance author Sonora Jha will talk about how storytellers stumble upon their stories and how they follow these stories with research, wandering, and a sense of wonder. Registration not required. Space is limited. Want an alternative way to attend? Get a link to the livestream. Join us in person at Bellevue Library. A One Bellevue One Book program. Bringing Bellevue together to read, discuss and connect with one book, "Intemperance" by Sonora Jha. Sonora Jha is the author of four books, including "The Laughter," which won the 2024 Washington Book Award, the AutHer Award, was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker, NPR, and others. Her previous books are the memoir "How to Raise a Feminist Son" and the novel "Foreign." Formerly a journalist in India and Singapore, Dr. Jha is now a Loyola Professor at Seattle University. Her latest novel, "Intemperance," which we are here to discuss tonight, has been described as "a disarmingly honest and urgent book about the human search for love in all corners of existence." It’s been hailed as one of the Best Books of 2025 by the Chicago Review of Books, the Library Journal, the Los Angeles Public Library, and BookPage, and is long listed for the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize. Sponsored by the Bellevue Friends of the Library and the Newport Way Library Association.

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