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"Nina Sharma's thoughtful debut is equal parts memoir, criticism, and long-ranging conversation with a new friend. A love story for the ruminative reader that is generous with both scrutiny and romance." - Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A hilarious and moving memoir in essays about love and allyship, told through one Asian and Black interracial relationship. When Nina Sharma meets Quincy while hitching a ride to a friend's Fourth of July barbecue, she spots a favorite book, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior,in the back seat of his cramped car, and senses a sadness from him that's all too familiar to her. She is immediately intrigued - who is this man? In The Way You Make Me Feel, Sharma chronicles her and Quincy's love story, and in doing so, examines how their Black and Asian relationship becomes the lens through which she moves through and understands the world.