5/19/2023 0 Comments A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena![]() ![]() You can control people if you know their language. It is strange, I thought, how we always recognize our best memories in hindsight. This beautifully written debut novel from Tanaz Bhathena reveals a rich and wonderful new world to readers tackles complicated issues of race, identity, class, and religion and paints a portrait of. And as her story is pieced together, told through multiple perspectives, it becomes clear that she was far more than just a girl like that.īook Quotes: A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena And as her story is pieced together, told through multiple perspectives, it becomes clear that she was far more than just a girl like that. So how is it that eighteen-year-old Porus Dumasia has only ever had eyes for her? And how did Zarin and Porus end up dead in a car together, crashed on the side of a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive on the scene, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is questioned. ![]() ![]() You don't want to get involved with a girl like that, they say. When Zarin Wadia dies in a car crash with a boy named Porus, no one in her South Asian. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from: a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school. Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk taker. Tanaz lives in Mississauga, Ontario with her family. ![]() A timeless exploration of high-stakes romance, self-discovery, and the lengths we go to love and be loved. Tanaz Bhathena is the author of The Beauty of the Moment, as well as the critically acclaimed A Girl Like That, which received two starred reviews and was named a Best Book of the Year by Seventeen, The Globe and Mail, and The Times of India, among others. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |