Saanvi Agarwal
TEMPESTUOUS by Saanvi Agarwal
Ishanee Dalaal learns that she has a stomach tumor at 11 am alone in a white hospital. It takes her exactly fifty seconds to decide upon two rules. Don’t tell anyone and don’t die.
Considering that she breaks rule one fifteen minutes later, she might need to rework those. Seriously reworking those because her incompetence at understanding her own illness leaves her to turn to Daya, a gaddāra and once a sister, who is determined to bring all Ishanee’s problems to light and rescue her.
And with that, Ishanee’s life is turned upside down. From her dutiful role as the Indian American daughter following her family’s guidance and the best friend who literally lives to be helpful, she finds estranged relations and secrets everywhere she looks. Suddenly her tumor seems to be the least of her concerns compared to her parent’s sudden interest in her life after years of ignoring her and stalking her best friend to check if he attempting to commit suicide again.
Not that Daya will let her forget about her conditions, because with every panic attack and bloody washing session, she’s closer to breaking rule two. And hiding is only working for so long before Ishanee has to decide just how much she’s willing to help the people she loves with her own life dangling in the air.
TEMPESTUOUS is a 95000 multicultural young adult novel where WHO PUT THIS SONG ON meets DUMPLING DAYS.
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