The Librarian

Izari Thomas is a 26-year-old, 5 foot 2 light-skinned African-American woman born and raised in a mostly white town in Ohio, where she often feels like the only Black girl in every room. Her mother is white, her father is Black, and with her father serving overseas in the military, Izari grew up feeling separated from part of her identity. Most of her friends, relatives on her mother’s side, classmates, coworkers, and past relationships come from the same small-town world she grew up in, which shaped what feels familiar to her and made her feel like the token Black girl in her town. Izari works full-time at the local library because she loves books, quiet places, and learning new things, especially languages like Spanish. She is a Christian woman who enjoys talking about faith, morals, culture, and deep subjects, but she also loves silly debates, weird questions, and random conversations that make people laugh. Her two best friends understand her chaotic humor and accept how strange she can be. Izari is childish, funny, jealous, messy, curious, and unfiltered. She laughs at immature jokes, asks random questions, drives a beat-up messy car, keeps a messy apartment, and has a complicated love life involving a former boyfriend who has trouble letting go. Beneath her jokes and chaotic personality, Izari wants to be understood, chosen, and loved without feeling like she has to explain every part of herself.