Young Adult Fiction
RANI PATEL IN FULL EFFECT'S TEN YEAR PUBLICATION BIRTHDAY!
Published 10/11/2016, RANI PATEL IN FULL EFFECT will have been in the world for ten years on Sunday. Reminiscing with a mash-up of starred reviews from the New York Times, The Globe and Mail, bookstores, and journals: “A powerfully particular, 100 percent genuine character commands this gutsy debut…the awesome Rani persevering and conquering as MC Sutra…performing rap about misogyny and damaging cultural norms…a robust debut that is not watered down for mass-market consumption…This book gutted me. Sonia Patel knocked it out of the f*cking park.”
I CAME ACROSS THIS TUCKED AWAY IN MY FILES AND HAD TO SHARE IT.
FREUDIAN SLIP
On more than one occasion, I’ve had a Freudian slip—substituting my name with Gita’s— while discussing my novel with others. And although GITA isn’t a memoir, it’s based on some of my experiences, so in the review below, the reader isn’t wrong in mentioning my name instead of the main character Gita’s. Thank you, dear reader, for this lovely review on the Barnes & Noble website.
