'Beautiful' essays that address race, family, religion and more
Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke to Allison Punch from Old Town Books in Alexandria, Va.When Nishta J. Mehra goes out with her family, people stare.That's just one of the realities she addresses in her essay collection, "Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion." Bookseller Allison Punch recommends the book and its "beautiful essays.""[Mehra] is an first-generation Indian-American woman who is married to a white woman, and they are raising…
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