Nina's Whisper
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There's no such thing as perfect love.
Nina Chandler knows this to be true. Even so, love is the one thing missing from her almost perfect life. With a medical degree and new house, she's worked hard to twist and tug her dreams into reality. But with her twenties almost over, it sometimes feels like she slept through the party and woke up to find everyone gone.
When a young woman cannonballs into Nina's world, she's a big, bold example of everything Nina isn't. Page, with her edgy personality and free spirit is...perfect. Nina struggles to understand why someone so effervescent would be drawn into her small, suburban life, but her insecurity fades before the glory of Page's adulation.
Of course, there's no such thing as perfect love.
Nina tells herself that, when small red flags rise and fall. A moment of pure, selfish recklessness. A sharp word, a bone-cold look. But if there's one thing Nina has always been good at, it's hushing the voices of doubt that get between her and her ambitions--until those dreams start to spin out of control, and become a nightmare she can't wake up from.
"Howard is the kind of captivating storyteller whose characters linger long after you finish reading. This is an urgent, timely, and captivating text that challenges our understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and the forms and faces of abuse. This book promises to haunt, anger, console, and ultimately inspire anyone who opens it." --Marc Lamont Hill, Host of BET News and author of Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Sheena C Howard
Sheena C. Howard, is associate professor of communication. She is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and scholar. In 2014, Sheena became the first Black woman to win an Eisner Award for her first book, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation. She is also the author of several critically acclaimed books and comics books on a range of topics. Sheena is a writer and image activist, with a passion for telling stories, through various mediums, that encourage audiences to consider narratives that are different than their own. In 2014, Sheena published Black Queer Identity Matrix and Critical Articulations of Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation. Sheena is the author/editor of the award-winning book Encyclopedia of Black Comics and the cowriter of the comic book Superb, about a teenage superhero with Down syndrome. In 2016, through her company Nerdworks, LLC, Sheena directed, produced, and wrote the documentary Remixing Colorblind, which explores the ways the educational system shapes our perception of race and "others."
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