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Gita Desai Is Not Here to Shut Up
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  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593463185
  • Imprint: Dial
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99

Gita Desai Is Not Here to Shut Up

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3 Dec 2024
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10 Sept 2024
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10 Sept 2024
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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.

From the author of the Morris Award finalist Rani Patel in Full Effect comes a sharply written novel about a college freshman who has escaped her traditional Gujarati upbringing . . . but suppressed memories are starting to bubble to the surface.

“A tough read that's worth the discomfort.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Gita reclaiming her voice is worth the journey.”—Booklist

It’s eighteen-year-old Gita Desai’s first year at Stanford University, and the fact that she’s here and not already married off by her very traditional Indian American parents is a miracle. She’s 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. But when two of the most popular girls on campus take her under their wing, starry-eyed Gita quickly loses herself in the intoxicating world of college parties and casual hookups. And with each new experience, flashbacks of childhood sexual assault—memories she had long ago buried—unearth themselves, unraveling everything she thought she knew.

The more Gita tries to navigate the confusing world of college and consent, the more she’s forced to face the heart-breaking truth of what happened to her. It’ll take a special kind of courage, plus help from her newfound friends, for her to burst forward and stop shutting up about the past.
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593463185
  • Imprint: Dial
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Sonia Patel

Sonia Patel writes out of her experience as a first-generation Indian American born in New York and raised in Hawaii, an experience lushly and brilliantly explored in her debut novel, Rani Patel in Full Effect. Rani received four starred reviews and was a Morris Award finalist and a YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults and Kirkus Reviews’ Best Teen Books selection. Her subsequent young adult novels, Jaya and Rasa: A Love Story and Bloody Seoul, both received the In the Margins Book Award. Her short story, “Nothing Feels No Pain,” appears in the YA anthology Ab(solutely) Normal. As a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist trained at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii, Patel has spent over twenty years providing individ­ual and family psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and their families. She lives in Honolulu with her husband, and they have two adult children in college.
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Praise for Gita Desai Is Not Here to Shut Up

Awards and Praise for Rani Patel in Full Effect:
**Four starred reviews**: Kirkus, PW, SLJ, Booklist
William C. Morris Award finalist
Kirkus Reviews Best Books
YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Books
BookExpo America Editor's Buzz Selection
NYPL 50 Best Teen Books
CCBC Choices Best-of-the-Year List

* “A powerfully particular, 100 percent genuine character commands this gutsy debut.”—Kirkus, starred review

* “Commendably and strikingly stands out in the YA landscape . . . Rani’s voice, oscillating from righteous anger to thrilling pride, swooning crushes, and heartbreaking insecurity, will resonate with many . . . Vivid, bold, and passionate.” —Booklist, starred review

* “Will appeal to readers who prefer gritty, darker fiction without a pat, happy ending, and characters who don’t always overcome their challenges but must face them repeatedly. A strong, unique choice for YA collections.” —School Library Journal, starred review

“Though suffering is at the core of this debut novel, it’s also about living through pain by harnessing what brings happiness. And the dip into ’90s nostalgia, not to mention the awesome Rani persevering and conquering as MC Sutra—but more important, as herself—makes reading all the slam poetry well worth it.”—The New York Times