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This young adult novel by Sheba Karim, author of Skunk Girl, is a funny and affecting coming-of-age story for fans of Jenny Han, Megan McCafferty, and Sara Farizan.Shabnam Qureshi is facing a summer of loneliness and boredom until she meets Jamie, who scores her a job at his aunt's pie shack. Shabnam quickly finds herself in love, while her former best friend, Farah, who Shabnam has begun to reconnect with, finds Jamie worrying.In her quest to figure out who she really is and what she really wants, Shabnam looks for help in an unexpected place - her family, and her father's beloved Urdu poetry.That Thing We Call a Heart is a funny and fresh story about the importance of love - in all its forms.
About the Author
Sheba Karim is the author of Mariam Sharma Hits the Road (Harper Collins June 2018) , the first South Asian-American YA road trip novel, and That Thing We Call a Heart (Harper Collins May 2017) , which was named a Best Contemporary Teen Read of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews. She is also the author of Skunk Girl (FSG 2009) and the editor of Alchemy: The Second Tranquebar Book of Erotic Short Stories (Tranquebar Press 2012) . Find out more at www.shebakarim.com.
