Tag: author
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Brinda Charry’s new novel ‘Hocus Pocus’ reimagines a magical Boston
Boston was the first place Brinda Charry arrived when she migrated to the United States from India in 1999. Twenty-seven years later, she has sent a character there too: an Indian stage magician arriving in the city from Europe. That…
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A rising young author turns her pain from battling cancer into purpose
Sophia D’Alleva has published a book while battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Courtesy photo Sophia D’Alleva pointed to the faint scar on the left side of her chest where her port-a-cath had been before doctors removed it. “It being ripped out of…
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‘You don’t give up’: In new book, Brookline gym owner John Carter recounts injury, incarceration, recovery and redemption
John Carter at the Hummingbird Book Store in Chestnut Hill on Wednesday, Jun 11, 2025. Photo by Muayad Al-Barwani John Carter was shot in the head, left in a coma for 99 days and told he’d never walk again. Yet…

