One Bellevue One Book: Sonora Jha's Author Talk - The Storyteller's Map to Rivers and Apartments

About this event

Room 1. "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. Book signing to follow talk. Registration not required. Space is limited. 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