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I know I won't go back to it, in spite of the unique narrator - a rapping Gujarati Indian girl living in Hawaii. This is a ya novel with great premise and a lot of promise, but which happened to be published in a very unpolished state.
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The author of this YA novel is a physician who practices psychiatry and for this reason the character of Rani, her mother and father are very vivid and realistic characters. There are a lot of serious issues in this story - abuse, incest, rape and drugs which the author with her clinical experiences covers in a careful and thoughtful manner. The beautiful setting of Hawaii and its element of island isolation along with information about Gujarati culture offer insights into the dysfunctional Pate
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This book was hard to read. Hard to see a girl live through so much pain.
I’m not going to finish this one. It seems to be all over the place.
This wasn't quite my book, but I did enjoy it.
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