THE MARVELOUS MIRZA GIRLS

To cure her post-senior year slump, made worse by the loss of her Aunt Sonia, Noreen is ready to follow her mom on a gap year trip to New Delhi, hoping India can lessen her grief and bring her voice back.

In the world's most polluted city, Noreen soon meets kind, handsome Kabir, who introduces her to the wonders of this magical, complicated place. With Kabir's help - plus Bollywood celebrities, fourteenth-century ruins, karaoke parties, and Sufi saints - Noreen begins to rediscover her joyful voice.

But when a family scandal erupts, Noreen and Kabir must face complicated questions in their own relationship: What does it mean to truly stand by someone - and what are the boundaries of love?

Sheba Karim is the author of Mariam Sharma Hits the Road, That Thing We Call a Heart (foreign rights sold to Bloomsbury in India), and Skunk Girl (foreign rights sold to Rizzoli in Italy; Tilden in Sweden; Carlsen in Denmark; and Bloomsbury in India). Her writing has appeared in Asia Literary Review, Literary Hub, Shenandoah, Time Out Delhi, and in several anthologies in the United States and India. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and NYU School of Law, and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is a Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University.