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Gita Desai is not here to shut up / Sonia Patel.
As memories of childhood sexual assault resurface in her first year of college, eighteen-year-old East Indian American Gita struggles to maintain her model student persona.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593463185 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 393 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Dial Books, 2024.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 14 years and up. |
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| Genre: | Young adult fiction. Campus fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | YA Patel | 31681010388114 | YADULT | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
As memories of childhood sexual assault resurface in her first year of college, eighteen-year-old East Indian American Gita struggles to maintain her model student persona. - Baker & Taylor
When a painful secret resurfaces while a freshman at Stanford, 18-year-old Gita Desai ditches the books night after night in favor of partying and hooking up with strangers until she realizes the only way she can move forward is to stop shutting up about the past. Simultaneous eBook. - Penguin Putnam
From Morris Award finalist Sonia Patel comes a sharply written YA about a girl grappling with a dark, painful secret from her past, perfect for fans of All My Rage and The Way I Used to Be.
Itâs eighteen-year-old Gita Desaiâs first year at Stanford, and the fact that sheâs here and not already married off by her traditional Gujarati parents is a miracle. Sheâs determined to death-grip her good-girl, model student rep all the way to med school, which means no social life or standing out in any way. Should be easy: If thereâs one thing sheâs learned from her family, itâs how to chup-reâto âshut up,â fade into the background. But when childhood memories of her auntâs desertion and her then-uncleâs best friend resurface, Gita ends up ditching the books night after night in favor of partying and hooking up with strangers. Still, nothing can stop the little voice growing louder and louder inside her that says something is wrong. . . . And the only way she can burst forward is to stop shutting up about the past.
âFunny, messy, gut-wrenching.ââKirkus Reviews
