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Independent Bookshop in Davis Square || Immigrant 🇧🇩Woman-Owned || Emphasizing Marginalized Voices

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01/12/2025

here's to expanding our narratives together in 2025

12/31/2024

Easing into 2025 with some January happenings ✨ reg. links dropping this week- save the dates friends, excited for our reunion in the new year, so very soon!

P.S. Happy end of 2024 to all! Hope you're able to take the time for exactly what you need this week

12/04/2024

& here we are with the last event calendar drop of 2024! Reg. links are in bio! 🥰

Winding events down in December to manage Narrative’s 1st holiday shopping season (I’m fine, it’s fine) but I hope you’ll come join us to send off 2024 on an amazing note with the wonderful events we do have coming up! Note that I’ll be popping-up and slinging books for .readings open mic on Thursday, 12/12 & it is not an event at Narrative! Please come check it out though if you can & note that there will be professional legal name/gender change support provided through T4T for any in need!

P.S. Please be extra, extra nice to your local small business folks this month! I LOVE this season but it is a lot of pressure as a small business because it plays a huge role in determining what we may or may not be able to do in the new year + it’s really hard to keep up with inventory & supply chain shenanigans as a tiny/new business. SO, we may be a liiiittle anxious. Please shop small if you can, please be kind 🤎🫶🤎

11/29/2024

And just like that, it's Narrative's 1st ever Small Business Saturday AND 6 Month Anniversary Week! Come sip & shop & celebrate all the things with us & I promise to do my best to not get super gooey about the fact that, somehow, it's already been 1/2 a year of sharing this dream with you and about allllll of the gorgeous, gorgeous people we are so very grateful to who have shown up for Narrative like we could've never, ever imagined. Thank you for EVERYTHING, hope to see you tomorrow! ❤️

07/26/2024

Did someone say✨Desi-owned✨bookshop?! 😎🔥🧡

So excited to announce Narrative's 1st author panel featuring 3 incredible Desi authors! Join us on Wednesday, August 7th at 7PM and, per usual, please RSVP so my brain swirlings are a little less chaotic 🙏💖- check out the “What’s New” section on narrativebookshop.com for the link to register!

Neema Avashia is the daughter of Indian immigrants, and was born and raised in southern West Virginia. She has been an educator and activist in the Boston Public Schools since 2003, and was named a City of Boston Educator of the Year in 2013. Her 1st book, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Q***r and Indian in a Mountain Place was named Best LGBTQ Memoir of 2022 by BookRiot, was one of the NYPL’s Best Books of 2022, and was a finalist for the New England Book Award, the Weatherford Award, and a Lambda Literary Award. She lives in Boston with her partner, Laura, and her daughter, Kahani.

Sejal Shah is the author of the debut short story collection How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions and the award-winning debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance, an NPR Best Book of 2020. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Conjunctions, Guernica, the Kenyon Review, and Literary Hub. In 2021, she was named an influential AAPI Leader by Good Morning America and ABC News. Sejal lives in Rochester, NY.

Rahul Mehta is the author of the novel No Other World, the short story collection Quarantine, and most recently the poetry collection Feeding the Ghosts. Their work has received a Lambda Literary Award and an Asian American Literary Award and has appeared in numerous publications including the Kenyon Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Georgia Review, The Sun, and the NY Times Magazine. Born and raised in West Virginia in a Gujarati-American household, they currently live in Philadelphia, PA.

06/18/2024

Shop will be closed tomorrow folks! Happy Juneteenth! ❤️

06/03/2024

✨& in the 2nd week, the restock started✨ let’s keep that narrative going, shall we?!

05/26/2024

Better get ready, we're diving right in! 🔥⚡🔥

05/25/2024

HAPPY, HAPPY OPENING DAY EVE!

Racing to the finish line to get everything ready for ya and I am hoping with everything in me that lots of you make it to our little baby Narrative's official debut into the world tomorrow! I've imagined this day for months and months when I should've been sleeping and it makes me tear up every single time. I've got a long night ahead, but that's ok because, in just a FEW HOURS, we can finally share in this Narrative of ours together! 🥰

We've got the BEST books for you, (many are your actual requests!!!) but copies are extremely limited so come get 'em before they're gone!

And of course, don't be silly & miss out on the chance to meet some AMAZING authors that I can't even really think about because I'll turn into a fan-girling, BABEL-ing (😮) pile of mush aaaand I don't have time for mushing right now.

That's not even all! There will also be DELICIOUS treats from the best of the best, the one and only !!!! AND some super fun sippings (non-alcoholic) from the coolest of neighbor-friends !!!!

Now if all that plus the fact that I am actually presenting you my WHOLE HEART can't convince you to show out tomorrow- do it for my mom! Jesmin, (aka J-Money) is SO excited to meet you too! 🥰

Ok, I have to get back to it now but SEE YOU SO, SO SOON! ❤️🎉

05/22/2024

See ya there?! ✨🫣✨

Address

387 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA
02144

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