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    A Year in Reading: Lauren Francis-Sharma

    by Lauren Francis-Sharma Dec 16, 2021 5 minutes

    It was a tough reading year for me. Coming off my own challenging book launch of 2020, the devastation of Covid, and the socio-political upheavals across the world, I was searching for the opposite of what publishing wanted me to be distracted by—I was searching for a bit of quiet. The books I have chosen are of that ilk. There are no wild plot lines, no unthoughtful gimmicks, no car chases, rather, these are stories and essay collections written by and about people who are interested in examining the world. This is what I needed in books this year, so I offer them to you, as a healing balm for all our 2021 wounds that don’t feel far different from our 2020 wounds, except we are all the more weary.

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