Name: In-Store: Upasna Barath: Comedic Timing w/ Haley Jakobson
Start: 2025-01-30T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-30T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Books Are Magic Montague

$In-Store: Upasna Barath: Comedic Timing w\/ Haley Jakobson$ “Comedic Timing plunges us into the exhilaration and terror that comes along when you try something—or someone—new." —Haley Jakobson
About this Event

Event guidelines:

All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.
Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.
Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
A signing will follow the talk.
Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/ZvGvE7H-k9o
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Moving to NYC means a fresh start for Naina, until an unexpected connection has her questioning everything she thought she knew about love, ambition, and her place in the world.
“People who've been ‘that woman crying on the subway just after moving to New York’ will feel so seen. (It's me. I'm people.) Comedic Timing is a raw depiction of romance and friendship, featuring all the complexity of navigating sex and love as a bi woman.” —Kate Goldbeck, author of You, Again
Naina Rao is ready for this to be her year: She’s entered her mid-twenties, landed a steady job, broken up with her intensely passionate older girlfriend Sofia, and committed to hustling her way into a creative career.
But the city doesn’t exactly embrace her with open arms – at least not until she meets David, an aspiring filmmaker and collaborator who makes New York start to feel like home.
But is this a professional connection or a romantic one? And does opening herself up to a relationship with David mean compromising her sexual identity and her aspirations?
The third book from 831 Stories, a modern romantic fiction company that prioritizes pleasure reading and the genre’s enthusiastic fans. For more pleasure reading, follow @831storieshq.

Upasna Barath is a writer and performer who grew up in India and the U.S. She was a contributor to Rookie Mag and a Steppenwolf Theatre Literary Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Haley Jakobson is an author and playwright living in Brooklyn, NY. In her work she explores queerness, girlhood, brains, and bodies. Haley’s debut novel Old Enough is a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Lambda Literary Award finalist for best bisexual fiction, and is described by Vogue as being “full of winsome bisexual chaos.” Her sophomore novel, Cavegirl, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House x Dutton Books.