{"id":5493,"date":"2005-08-04T23:21:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T03:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:55:13","slug":"monsoon-summer-by-mitali-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/monsoon-summer-by-mitali-perkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/08\/Monsoon-Summer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30752\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/08\/Monsoon-Summer.jpg\" alt=\"Monsoon Summer\" width=\"314\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>Got the publication date confused and held it longer than intended \u2013 but can\u2019t let it go without saying this is a grand coming-of-age story. Jazz Gardner travels to India with her family where her Indian-born mother will establish a prenatal clinic at the orphanage where she once lived. Jazz is especially torn about leaving her best friend \u2013 whom she most recently has realized is the love of her life. But it\u2019s in India, and in her Indian roots, where Jazz finally finds her own true self.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-08-04-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, August 4, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/monsoon-summer.jpg\" alt=\"Monsoon Summer\" title=\"Monsoon Summer\" width=\"128\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5494\" \/>Got the publication date confused and held it longer than intended \u2013 but can\u2019t let it go without saying this is a grand coming-of-age story. Jazz Gardner travels to India with her family where her Indian-born mother will establish a prenatal clinic at the orphanage where she once lived. Jazz is especially torn about leaving her best friend \u2013 whom she most recently has realized is the love of her life. But it\u2019s in India, and in her Indian roots, where Jazz finally finds her own true self.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-08-04-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, August 4, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,197,52,53,30,6535,17,18,31],"tags":[3598,6608,58,59,51,13,2494,145,3901,129],"class_list":["post-5493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-hapa","category-indian","category-indian-american","category-middle-grade-readers","category-repost","category-south-asian","category-south-asian-american","category-young-adult-readers","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-identity","tag-love","tag-mitali-perkins","tag-mixed-race-issues","tag-monsoon-summer","tag-mother-daughter-relationship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/monsoon-summer-by-mitali-perkins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Got the publication date confused and held it longer than intended \u2013 but can\u2019t let it go without saying this is a grand coming-of-age story. 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