A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk-taker. 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. You don’t want to get involved with a girl like that, they say. 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.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Misogyny
- Slut shaming
- Victim blaming
- Rape
- Sexual assault
- Sexual harassment
- Physical & psychological child abuse
- Domestic violence
- Depression
- Nonconsensual drugging
- Death of a parent
- Graphic car accident
- Death of a pet