6/29/2023 0 Comments Neema avashia bookNeema is Profiled for CNN by Harmeet Kaur-“ What it was like to grow up in Appalachia for a child of Indian immigrants” from July 14, 2022 She is the author of Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, published in March 2022.īuy Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Neema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia to Indian immigrant parents, and she has been a civics and history teacher in the Boston Public Schools since 2003. On Episode 143 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Neema Avashia, and the two discuss, among other topics, her lifelong love of words, books as sources of comfort and disappointment, formative writers like Abraham Verghese and Salman Rushdie, her own writing and its strengthening through workshops and writers’ groups and through her work as an educator and activist, her book as a direct response to uneven and often wrong depictions of South Asians and more diverse Appalachian communities, the ways in which the book’s diverse chapters coalesce, and salient ideas of home and belonging. Episode 143 Notes and Links to Neema Avashia’s Work
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