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Damani is tired. Every day she cares for her mom, drives ride shares to pay the bills and is angry at a world that promised her more before spitting her out. That is until the summer she meets Jolene and life opens up. Jolene seems like she could be the perfect girlfriend—attentive, attractive, liberal—and their chemistry feels genuine. So maybe Damani can look past the one thing that's holding her back: Jolene is white. But Jolene really doesn't seem like one of the bad ones—she's done the reading, she goes to every protest, she even listens.

From the incendiary voice behind Your Driver is Waiting, a fierce and unforgettable novel about a Tamil refugee family stealing from corporations to survive until their lives are up-ended by a day-trading scam, threatening what little security they have left. It’s hard to be a teenager at the...

Ein origineller, rasanter Debütroman einer aufregenden neuen Stimme. Damani kämpft. Jeden Tag kümmert sie sich um ihre Mutter, fährt die ältere Dame Mrs. Patrice zum Bingospielen, während sie immer weniger durch die Fahrdienst-App verdient. Die Rechnungen stapeln sich, ihre Wut auf die Welt wächst. Bis eines Tages Jolene in ihrem Wagen sitzt. Sie scheint die perfekte Freundin zu sein - aufmerksam, attraktiv, eine Verbündete. Vielleicht kann Damani über das hinwegsehen, was sie zurückhält: Noch nie hat sie eine Frau mit Geld gedatet, geschweige denn eine weiße Frau mit Geld.

Damani is tired. Her father just died on the job at a fast-food joint, and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in a basement, caring for her mom and driving for an app that is constantly cutting her take. The city is roiling in protests—everybody’s in solidarity with somebody—but while she keeps hearing that they’re fighting for change on behalf of people like her, she literally can’t afford to pay attention.