{"product_id":"gita-desai-is-not-here-to-shut-up-9780593463185","title":"Gita Desai Is Not Here to Shut Up","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003eAll My Rage \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Way I Used to Be.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's eighteen-year-old Gita Desai's first year at Stanford, and the fact that she's here and not already married off by her traditional Gujarati 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. Should be easy: If there's one thing she's learned from her family, it's how to chup-re--to \"shut up,\" fade into the background. But when childhood memories of her aunt's desertion and her then-uncle's 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 \u003ci\u003ewrong. . . . \u003c\/i\u003eAnd the only way she can burst forward is to stop shutting up about the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Funny, messy, gut-wrenching.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonia 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, \u003ci\u003eRani Patel in Full Effect\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eRani \u003c\/i\u003ereceived four starred reviews and was a Morris Award finalist and a YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults and \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews'\u003c\/i\u003e Best Teen Books selection. Her subsequent young adult novels, \u003ci\u003eJaya and Rasa: A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBloody Seoul\u003c\/i\u003e, both received the In the Margins Book Award. Her short story, \"Nothing Feels No Pain,\" appears in the YA anthology \u003ci\u003eAb(solutely) Normal\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dial Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50875537031442,"sku":"9780593463185","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c8dd4080-ef80-4154-80d2-a64a156eed25.jpg?v=1738290426","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gita-desai-is-not-here-to-shut-up-9780593463185","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}