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Dilo: Teenager. Refugee. Hustler. Since Dilo fled Sri Lanka for North America, she's picked up a couple things from her new home: an accent and a taste for the hustle. Between selling pirate CDs and shoplifting, she lives hand-to-mouth, constantly struggling for her family's next meal. Until her...

Damani is tired. Every day she cares for her mom, drives ride shares to pay the bills and is angry at a world that promised her more before spitting her out. That is until the summer she meets Jolene and life opens up. Jolene seems like she could be the perfect girlfriend—attentive, attractive, liberal—and their chemistry feels genuine. So maybe Damani can look past the one thing that's holding her back: Jolene is white. But Jolene really doesn't seem like one of the bad ones—she's done the reading, she goes to every protest, she even listens.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Autostraddle, Shondaland, Booklist In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire—inspired by the iconic 1970s film Taxi Driver—a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides...

Ein origineller, rasanter Debütroman einer aufregenden neuen Stimme. Damani kämpft. Jeden Tag kümmert sie sich um ihre Mutter, fährt die ältere Dame Mrs. Patrice zum Bingospielen, während sie immer weniger durch die Fahrdienst-App verdient. Die Rechnungen stapeln sich, ihre Wut auf die Welt wächst. Bis eines Tages Jolene in ihrem Wagen sitzt. Sie scheint die perfekte Freundin zu sein - aufmerksam, attraktiv, eine Verbündete. Vielleicht kann Damani über das hinwegsehen, was sie zurückhält: Noch nie hat sie eine Frau mit Geld gedatet, geschweige denn eine weiße Frau mit Geld.

From the incendiary voice behind Your Driver is Waiting, a riotous novel following a family of Tamil refugees who fled civil war in Sri Lanka to pursue a better life, just for it to be up-ended by the schemes of a self-proclaimed day-trading savant, jeopardizing everything they’ve worked so...