Holiday Melanin Reads: The Neighbor Favor

Join us for a monthly celebration of diverse literature with Melanin Reads Book Club! We are excited to dive into The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest for our holiday selection. For this meeting, we will have a hybrid event where we can meet in-person at the Starbucks on Landstown Center Way as well as on Zoom. You will need to get the Zoom link from the private Facebook group (link below).

Each month, we’ll explore a new book written by authors of color and engage in thought-provoking discussions. Our community is dedicated to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the literary world. Whether you’re an avid reader or just starting your literary journey, we welcome you to join our community and broaden your horizons with us.

Melanin Reads Book Club is an extension of The Connect 757 and meets monthly to support black and brown authors. Members are welcome to read traditional hardcover or stream the audio version.

The Neighbor Favor is available on Amazon.

We welcome you to join our private Facebook group to gain access to the virtual link, “Melanin Reads Book Club” HERE.

More about the book below!

A shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he’s the obscure author she’s been corresponding with, in this sparkling and heart-fluttering romance by Kristina Forest.

Shy, bookish, and admittedly awkward, Lily Greene has always felt inadequate compared to the rest of her accomplished family, who strive for Black excellence. She dreams of becoming a children’s books editor, but she’s been frustratingly stuck in the nonfiction division for years without a promotion in sight. Lily finds escapism in her correspondences with her favorite fantasy author, and what begins as two lonely people connecting over email turns into a tentative friendship and possibly something else Lily won’t let herself entertain—until he ghosts her without a word.

Months later, Lily is still crushed, but she’s determined to get a hold of her life, starting with finding a date to her sister’s wedding. And the perfect person to help her is Nick Brown, her charming, attractive new neighbor, who she feels drawn to for reasons she can’t explain. But little does she know, Nick is an author—her favorite fantasy author.

Nick, who has his reasons for using a pen name and pushing people away, soon realizes that the beautiful, quiet girl from down the hall is the same Lily he fell in love with over email months ago. Unwilling to complicate things even more between them, he agrees to set her up with someone else, though this simple favor between two neighbors is anything but—not when he can't get her off his mind...

Host or Publisher The Connect 757