![]() ![]() ![]() Gul’s mark is what caused her parents’ murder at the hand of King Lohar’s ruthless soldiers and forced her into hiding to protect her own life. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar, girls with such birthmarks have been disappearing for years. ![]() Series: The Wrath of Ambar Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website) 2018)Ģ019 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award (Finalist) Awards and HonoursĢ018 The Globe 100 ( Globe and Mail, 1 Dec. This beautifully written debut novel from Tanaz Bhathena reveals a rich and wonderful new world to readers tackles complicated issues of race, identity, class, and religion and paints a portrait of teenage ambition, angst, and alienation that feels both inventive and universal. And as her story is pieced together, told through multiple perspectives, it becomes clear that she was far more than just a girl like that. So how is it that eighteen-year-old Porus Dumasia has only ever had eyes for her? And how did Zarin and Porus end up dead in a car together, crashed on the side of a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive on the scene, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is questioned. You don’t want to get involved with a girl like that, they say. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from: a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school. Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk taker. H38 Publisher’s Snyopis (FSG from its website) ![]()
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