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Recommended Fiction Book List for the 2019 In the Margins Book Award Jayas 17, a transgender Gujarati outsider who detests wealth, secrets, and privilege, though he has them all. Only thing 16-year-old Rasa has is siblings, plus a mother who controls men like a black-widow spider. Neither one of them has ever known real love or family. Not until their chance meeting one sunny day on a mountain in Hauula.



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Sonia Patel

Sonia Patel is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, trained at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii. She lives and practices in Hawaii. Her YA debut, Rani Patel In Full Effect, was a finalist for the Morris Award, received four starred reviews from trade magazines, and was listed on YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults and Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of 2016.



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