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Sonora Jha

Biography

Sonora Jha

Sonora Jha is the author of the memoir HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON (2021), as well as the novels THE LAUGHTER (2023) and FOREIGN (2013). After a career as a journalist covering crime, politics and culture in India and Singapore, she moved to the United States to earn a PhD in media and public affairs. Sonora’s op-eds, essays and public appearances have been featured in the New York Times, on the BBC, in anthologies and elsewhere. She is a professor of journalism and lives in Seattle.

Sonora Jha

Books by Sonora Jha

by Sonora Jha - Fiction

Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor. Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver’s long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly tips towards obsession after her teenaged nephew, Adil Alam, arrives from France to stay with her. Drawn to them, Oliver tries to reconcile his discomfort with the worlds from which they come, and to quiet his sense of dismay at the encroaching change they represent. After protests break out demanding diversity across the university, Oliver finds himself and his beliefs under fire, even as his past reveals a picture more complicated than it seems.