YA Book Buzz
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February 8, 2019
February 2019 Featured Read:
96 Words for Love by Rachel Roy & Ava Dash
SAVOR** at THE WESTCHESTER MALL (Food Hall on Level 4)
125 Westchester Ave, White Plains, NY 10601 **The seating area next to THE LITTLE BEET
A modern retelling of the classic Indian legend of Shakuntala and Dushyanta, 96 Words for Love is a coming-of-age story. Ever since her acceptance to UCLA, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped by a future already mapped out for her. Then her beloved grandmother dies, and Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true path. But she didn't expect to fall in love... with a country of beautiful contradictions, her fiercely loyal cousin, a local girl with a passion for reading, and a boy who teaches her that in Sanskrit, there are 96 different ways to say the word "love."