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A Girl Like That

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by Tanaz Bhathena


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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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