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    A Girl Like That
    A Girl Like That
    A Girl Like That
    Audiobook9 hours

    A Girl Like That

    Written by Tanaz Bhathena

    Narrated by Firdous Bamji, Neil Shah, Soneela Nankani and Lameece Issaq

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    About this audiobook

    In this young adult debut set in Saudi Arabia, where the law forbids romantic relationships outside of marriage, two teens fall in love with tragic consequences. Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: an Indian girl, a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a troublemaker whose romantic entanglements are the subject of endless gossip among the girls in her school. "You don't want to get involved with a girl like that," they say. So how is it that Porus, a Parsi boy, 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 the highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is called into question.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 27, 2018
    ISBN9781501979361
    A Girl Like That
    Author

    Tanaz Bhathena

    Tanaz Bhathena is an award-winning Zoroastrian author of contemporary and fantasy fiction. Her books include Hunted by the Sky, which won the White Pine Award and the Bapsi Sidhwa Literary Prize, and The Beauty of the Moment, which won the Nautilus Gold Award for Young Adult Fiction. Her acclaimed debut, A Girl Like That, was named a Best Book of the Year by numerous outlets including The Globe and Mail, Seventeen, and The Times of India. Born in India and raised in Saudi Arabia and Canada, Tanaz lives in Mississauga, Ontario, with her family.

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    • 5/5
      Dark and intense - not at all what I expected.
    • 5/5
      This is a beautiful narration. The story is also great, I'm so grateful to have been able to experience this story. Wow
    • 4/5
      There were many parts of the story line that pissed me off, but it was very eye opening to the huge culture difference and it was well written
    • 5/5
      This book was so riveting! I couldn’t stop listening to it. It was written in such a personal way. I loved it!
    • 2/5
      I listened to this book and it was read by different people for the different characters. It was just too slow. The setting in Saudia Arabia was interesting and the details of different ethnicities such as Indians living there was intriguing but I just didn't feel like finishing.
    • 5/5
      teen fiction (suspense/romance. main character is an Indian Zoroastrian going to school with other "outsiders" in Saudi Arabia under the restrictions of the religious police in addition to the hurtful rumors spread by her classmates; potential trauma triggers: assault, physical/emotional abuse, date rape drugging)
      I wasn't sure I was going to be able to settle into this story at first because the setting seemed so different, but very quickly it became all-too familiar (though with extra scariness and suspense because of the higher stakes for women in Saudi Arabia).
    • 3/5
      Zarin has a reputation as a troublemaker, a girl who doesn't act properly, and who draws too much attention from boys. She appears fierce, indifferent, intimidating, even as malicious gossip circulates at school. The book opens with her death in a car accident with the only boy she probably genuinely loved. Through alternating perspectives of Zarin and her classmates, readers see beneath the reputation, to the pain and heartbreak that has formed her. Disturbing and haunting.
    • 5/5
      In this young adult debut set in Saudi Arabia, where the law forbids romantic relationships outside of marriage, two teens fall in love, with tragic consequences. Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: an Indian girl, a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a troublemaker whose romantic entanglements are the subject of endless gossip among the girls in her school. "You don't want to get involved with a girl like that," they say. So how is it that Porus, a Parsi boy, 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 the highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is called into question.
    • 3/5
      I had this audiobook on my phone from some year it was offered with Audiobooksync. Wow. I find it very haunting.The first chapter reveals Zarin and Porus dying in a car accident. They hold hands as they drift upwards and look down upon their families as they cry over their deaths. The religious police appear to be asking a lot of questions. The rest of the book tells their story from different perspectives.
    • 4/5
      I'm not giving anything away by acknowledging this begins with the crash on a highway outside of Jeddah, which hooked me right away. The story then unfolds from a few points of view, Zarin being the main character. She is an orphan, very tough on the outside, as she doesn't fit in anywhere. Raised by her mother's sister and husband, she is a constant reminder of the unmarried sister that didn't toe the line. They are all a bit out of sorts, even though they moved to Saudi Arabia from India for Masa's work years ago and Zarin has attended the same school with the same girls for years. These young women have 21st devices, but still understand all the rules and customs of their faith, as well as the gossip and rumors that go with high school age girls. Even rebellious Zarin won't go too far as she tries the limits of Saudi law and her aunt and uncle. What goes with that, is an immense amount of abuse by the young men, who aren't held to quite the same rules. There were so many heart wrenching parts. And pretty much every maternal character in the book wasn't very helpful, all seemed to be depressed and on medication. I just recently heard on the news of Saudi women learning to drive, and hope that steps like that will help uncover the abuse many of these women face.