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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Bhathena, Tanaz, author.
Title: A girl like that / Tanaz Bhathena.
Description: First Edition.|New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018.|Summary: In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle’s house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape. Identifiers: LCCN 2017011020 (print)|LCCN 2017033224 (ebook)|ISBN 9780374305451 (ebook)|ISBN 9780374305444 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: East Indians—Saudi Arabia—Juvenile fiction.|CYAC: East Indians—Saudi Arabia—Fiction.|Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.|Rape—Fiction.|Bullying—Fiction.|Religion—Fiction.|High schools—Fiction.|Schools—Fiction.|Jiddah (Saudi Arabia)—Fiction.|Saudi Arabia—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.B5324 (ebook)|LCC PZ7.1.B5324 Gi 2018 (print)|DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017011020
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eISBN 9780374305451
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue
Zarin
Porus
Mishal
Beginnings
Zarin
Mishal
Farhan
Reencounter
Zarin
Porus
A Girl Like Any Other
Zarin
Mishal
Porus
Farhan
Blood
Zarin
Porus
Zarin
Porus
Shame
Mishal
Farhan
Zarin
Porus
Love
Zarin
The Collectors
Mishal
Epilogue
Zarin
Glossary of Words and Phrases
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
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