Elena Nicolaou is a senior entertainment editor at Today.com, where she covers the latest in TV, pop culture, movies and all things streaming. Previously, she covered culture at Refinery29 and Oprah Daily. Her superpower is matching people up with the perfect book, which she does on her podcast, Blind Date With a Book.
Jenna Bush Hager says her June 2024 Read With Jenna pick stayed with her, and predicts it will stay with you, too. She calls Essie Chambers' debut novel 'Swift River' a 'powerful exploration of identity and love.' The book follows Diamond Newberry, the daughter of a single mother in a small Massachusetts town. Her father disappeared seven years prior, making Diamond the only Black person in Swift River.
'I feel like the Diamonds of the world often don't get to be the center of a story and they're not humanized. I wanted readers who were Diamond to feel seen and heard and respected. I wanted people who aren't like her to have real empathy and understand what it feels like to move through the world in her body,' she says. She also tries to individuate from her parents and their intense histories.
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