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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

With resonant themes and an immersive setting, this novel-in-verse brings South Asian and Buddhist representation front and center. It's a coming-of-age story with a protagonist you'll love to root for.

Caught between two worlds—a poverty-stricken village and a fancy big-city school—a young Sri Lankan girl must decide who she really is and where she really belongs.

1998, Colombo. The Sri Lankan Civil War is raging, but everyday life must go on. At Kavi’s school, her friends talk about the weekly Top 40, the Backstreet Boys, Shahrukh Khan, Leo & Kate… and who died—or didn’t—in the latest bombing. But Kavi is afraid of something even scarier than war. She fears that if her friends discover he...