Name: Graphic Novel Talk: Super Boba Café 2 by Nidhi Chanani
Start: 2025-10-29T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-29T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Village Well Books & Coffee

$Graphic Novel Talk: Super Boba Caf\u00e9 2 by Nidhi Chanani$

Join acclaimed graphic novelist Nidhi Chanani to talk about her brand new book!
About this Event

Join us at Village Well Books & Coffee for a conversation with Nidhi Chanani in celebration of her new book, Super Boba Café 2: Home Sea Home!

Nidhi will talk about her work with podcaster and journalist Phil Yu.

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About the participants:

Nidhi Chanani is an award-winning author and illustrator. Her graphic novels include Pashmina, Jukebox the Shark Princess series and the Super Boba Cafe series. She also creates picture books. Some of her titles are I will be fierce, Strong, Binny’s Diwali, What Will My Story Be and Quiet Karima. When she’s not drawing, Nidhi loves to travel and has visited 20 countries. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Phil Yu is the founder and editor of the popular Asian American news and culture blog, Angry Asian Man, which has had a devoted following since 2001. His commentary has been featured and quoted in The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and elsewhere.

About the book:

Aria and Nainai are back in this sweet and magical middle-grade, full-color graphic novel about a mysterious ancient monster and the quest to set it free.

Aria thought her life would go back to normal when she left her nainai’s boba shop—and the monster living below it—behind in San Francisco.

But while Aria and Nainai may have stopped the Big One, the aftershocks from her summer adventure are far from over. Each night, the monster visits Aria’s dreams, calling her back to the caves below the city. Stranger still, Aria’s discovered a newfound ability to manipulate water . . . but her powers aren’t quite under her control.

So Aria convinces her parents she needs another visit with Nainai, and she packs her bags and heads back to San Francisco.

Beneath the boba shop, Aria and Nainai learn the monster’s secret—he needs their help to return home. Can Aria learn how to harness her new powers (and a whole lot of boba) to bring the monster back to the sea, or will it be trapped under the city forever?