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AMERICAN BETIYA

Fans of Sandhya Menon, Erika Sanchez and Jandy Nelson will identify with this powerful story of a young artist grappling with first love, family boundaries and the complications of a cross-cultural relationship.

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AMERICAN BETIYA

Rani Kelkar has never lied to her parents, until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in--his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art--make him her mother's worst nightmare.


They begin dating in secret, but when Oliver's troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give, desperately trying to fit into her world, no matter how high the cost. When a twist of fate leads Rani from Evanston, Illinois to Pune, India for a summer, she has a reckoning with herself--and what's really brewing beneath the surface of her first love.


Winner of the SCBWI Emerging Voices Award, Anuradha D. Rajurkar takes an honest look at the ways cultures can clash in an interracial relationship. Braiding together themes of sexuality, artistic expression, and appropriation, she gives voice to a girl claiming ownership of her identity, one shattered stereotype at a time.

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Good News for the New Year!

Good News for the New Year!

Happy New Year, friends! I hope you enjoyed saying goodbye to the highly troublesome 2020 and fou...
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That angel-topper made it into AMERICAN BETIYA

Fun and Magic

My young immigrant parents presented the united belief that all traditions have elements of joy, light, and community, and we were invited to take part in and appreciate all of them.
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Interview with Adiba Jaigirdar, #Roaring20sdebut Author of THE HENNA WARS

Interview with Adiba Jaigirdar, #Roaring20sdebut Author of THE HENNA WARS

The Henna Warsis about Nishat, who is a Bangladeshi Muslim lesbian. When she decides to come out to her parents, they react by shutting her out and rejecting her sexuality. She turns to henna, which is important to her because she learned it from her grandmother.
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