Gita Desai Is Not Here to Shut Up

From Morris Award finalist Sonia Patel comes a sharply written YA about a girl grappling with a dark, painful secret from her past, perfect for fans of All My Rage and The Way I Used to Be. Its eighteen-year-old Gita Desais first year at Stanford, and the fact that shes here and not already married off by her traditional Gujarati parents is a miracle. Shes determined to death-grip her good-girl, model student rep all the way to med school, which means no social life or standing out in any way. Should be easy: If theres one thing shes learned from her family, its how to chup-reto shut up, fade into the background. But when childhood memories of her aunts desertion and her then-uncles best friend resurface, Gita ends up ditching the books night after night in favor of partying and hooking up with strangers. Still, nothing can stop the little voice growing louder and louder inside her that says something is wrong. . . . And the only way she can burst forward is to stop shutting up about the past. Funny, messy, gut-wrenching.Kirkus Reviews