Belonging in New Hampshire: A Book Talk with Local Authors Terry Farish and Lochan Sharma

Belonging in New Hampshire: Terry Farish and Lochan Sharma present their YA novel GO HOME

One summer, in a fictional New Hampshire community, three teens, Olive, Gabe, and Samir are drawn into conflict. The novel’s question is: what does a need for belonging require of them to do?  Olive and Gabe want nothing more than to make a home and family together.  Gabe works three jobs to make their dreams come true while Olive finishes high school.  Then Samir and his family move in across the street from Olive.  They came for their dream, to open a Nepali restaurant.  Samir’s presence awakens in Gabe an intense anger toward immigrants he believes are taking resources from white Americans. The Boston Globe described the novel:  “Go Home shows how teenage characters are grappling with some of the same questions igniting the political debate around immigration.”

Terry and Lochan will read in the novel’s two voices. They’ll talk about their writing collaboration and introduce the characters and the moral dilemma each faces. Please come to meet the authors, eat Nepali foods, and take part in a discussion about immigration and belonging.  Go Home is a crossover YA for teens and adults.

They’ll also show art drawn by Bhutanese-Nepali refugees who have made homes in New Hampshire. The drawings depict the farms they lost when they were expelled from Bhutan. Enjoy Nepali foods provided by Durbar Square, and purchase a signed copy of Go Home from RiverRun Bookstores. 

Registration is requested to assist in ordering food for the event. 

About Terry Farish and Lochan Sharma
Terry is also the author of The Good Braider a novel in verse, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and Either the Beginning or the End of the World. She lives in Atlantic Heights, Portsmouth.  Lochan was born in Nepal after his family was exiled from Bhutan.  They came to Concord in 2009. Lochan is a student at Keene State College. This is his debut novel.