Title: American BetiyaBook List: Asian Voices in Teen Fiction, Teen Romance Stories Gr 9-12, Teen Tearjerkers (Bring Tissues!)
Published by: Alfred A Knopf
Author: Rajurkar, Anuradha
Genre: Teen
Pages: 368
ISBN13: 9781984897152
Add on GoodreadsRani Kelkar has never lied to her parents, until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in--his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art--make him her mother's worst nightmare.
They begin dating in secret, but when Oliver's troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give, desperately trying to fit into her world, no matter how high the cost. When a twist of fate leads Rani from Evanston, Illinois to Pune, India for a summer, she has a reckoning with herself--and what's really brewing beneath the surface of her first love.
Winner of the SCBWI Emerging Voices award, Anuradha Rajurkar takes an honest look at the ways cultures can clash in an interracial relationship. Braiding together themes of sexuality, artistic expression, and appropriation, she gives voice to a girl claiming ownership of her identity, one shattered stereotype at a time.
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