Bold Types #1: Nadeesha Uyangoda 🇮🇹

The author of The Only Black Person in the Room on life in Milan during the lockdown.

Apr 14, 2020

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The Only Black Person in the Room author talks about life in Milan during the lockdown.

Nadeesha Uyangoda’s first book is a memoir/personal essay about racial issues and identities in Italy. Uyangoda, 27, is a freelance journalist and currently quarantined with her mother in Milan.

How are things?

I haven’t left my house for almost a month now. I’m worki…

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