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If I could have given this more than 5 stars I would have. I‘m a pretty liberal eater. I give a lot of four and fives but this one is WORTH it! I have not wept like this since Fredrik Backman‘s The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer.

A beautifully lovely and sad story if family, friendship, and loss. Written in verse.

I loved many things about this book, but the ideas surrounding blood (literally), family, and forging the many different parts of yourself into one self were my favorite.

#BookSpin list for June. Trying something different this month for Bingo. I‘ll use the number board, but I‘m going to leave most of them open and use a random number generator to plug books in once I‘ve read them. (So not officially bookspinbingo. 🤪)I keep feeling like I can‘t read what I want because it won‘t “count”. Looking forward to reading one of these next month, though!

“I have one life, /where I try to merge all the places/I‘m from: India and America,/ mother and father/ past, present ,/ and future.” Book 30 #MGMarch #middlegrademarch Absolutely beautiful story in deftly flowing verse. @Eggs @megnews @SaturnDoo

My heart after reading this middle grade novel. Reha is Indian American who is torn between two worlds, her school and her family and her community. She is trying to figure out everything when her mom becomes sick and is diagnosed with Leukemia. Then her whole world becomes trying to help her mom get better and the fear of what happens if her mother doesn‘t. This novel was told in verse and had my attention from page 1.

I tried, and I really wanted to like this book. But I couldn't.

An amazingly heart wrenching story told in verse.
Reha struggles with her identity as an Indian American girl, first gen. Her parents place high hopes in her and her identity is split between who she is at school and who she is among her family and community.
Reha‘s life is turned upside down when her mom gets sick, if she becomes the perfect daughter will it be enough to bring her Amma back to her?
#ownvoices #netgalley
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This middle grade novel, told in verse, about a young girl who struggles to fit in, to balance her heritage (her family is from India) with her desire to be American, and to find a way to save her mom from a devastating illness had me laughing and crying and feeling all the emotions. A fantastic story about heritage, belonging, family, friendship, and finding your place in the world. On sale 2/2/21.