A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An impossible first love. A girl caught between two worlds. A country on the verge of chaos.

“Epic and almost surreal in scope . . . [A] fast-paced whirlwind of startling images, action, and heartfelt emotion.”—NPR

“A riveting, historically accurate, coming-of-age tale of gutsy survival, self-sacrifice, and love.”—Booklist, starred review

It is 1984, and fifteen-year-old Maya is on her way to India with her father. She carries with her the ashes of her mother, who recently committed suicide, and arrives in Delhi on the eve of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination and one of the bloodiest riots in the country’s history.

Maya is separated from her father and must rely upon the help of a young man she’s just met—the mysterious, kindhearted Sandeep—if she is to stay alive and make it home. But as her love for Sandeep begins to blossom, Maya must face the truth about her painful adolescence . . . if she’s ever to imagine her future.

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CATHY OSTLERE writes creative nonfiction, drama, and YA fiction. Her first book, the memoir, Lost (2008), was shortlisted for the 2009 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Her second book, Karma (2011), a novel-in-verse, was critically praised and won numerous distinctions in the U.S. and Canada including the R. Ross Annett Children's Award, Booklist Editor's Choice and shortlisted for the 2012 Canadian Library Association's YA Book Award. Her drama, Lost: A Memoir (2011), co-written with Dennis Garnhum, was a 2012 Governor General's Literary Award finalist. Karma has been published in India and will be translated into Russian. Ms. Ostlere is the Past President of the Creative Nonfiction Collective.

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