It’s a pleasure to provide a sampling of Liara Tamani’s CALLING MY NAME!
In this series, we’re bringing authors to your living room! Liara Tamani reads from her YA novel, CALLING MY NAME.
About CALLING MY NAME as per the Amazon Description:
“Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of DEAR MARTIN
“Calling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.
This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and purpose.
Told in fifty-three short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter.”
Link to purchase CALLING MY NAME:
About Liara Tamani:
Liara Tamani lives in Houston, Texas. She holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College and a BA from Duke University. CALLING MY NAME is her first book.
Find out more about Liara on her website: or on Instagram.
Liara also dishes writing advice in an earlier WA TV Video here.
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Huge thank you to Liara Tamani for being our guest!
