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Author Bhat, Shashi, 1983- author.

Title The most precious substance on earth / Shashi Bhat.

Publication Info. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022.
©2021

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Department  F BHAT    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FIC BHAT    Check Shelf
Edition First Grand Central Publishing edition.
Description 256 pages ; 24 cm
Note "First published in 2021 in Canada by McClelland & Stewart"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-256).
Summary Bright, hilarious, and sensitive fourteen-year-old Nina spends her spare time reading Beowulf and flirting with an internet predator. She has a vicious crush on her English teacher, and her best friend Amy is slowly drifting away. Meanwhile, Nina's mother tries to match her up with local Indian boys unfamiliar with her Saved by the Bell references, and Nina's worried father has started reciting Hindu prayers outside her bedroom door. And she won't speak of the incident in high school that changes the course of her life. On her tumultuous path from nineties high school student to present-day high school teacher, Nina will learn difficult truths about existing as a woman in the world. And whether she's pushing herself into public speaking, struggling through her MFA program, enduring the indignities of online dating, or wrestling with how to best guide her students, she will discover that the past is never far behind her.
Subject Women -- Fiction.
Post-traumatic stress disorder in women -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Life change events. (OCoLC)fst00998231
Post-traumatic stress disorder in women. (OCoLC)fst02006015
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Genre/Form Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Bildungsromans.
Novels.
Fiction.
ISBN 9781538707913 (hardback)
1538707918 (hardback)
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