Come Join Us For the Launch of Award-winning Author
Marina Budhos’New Novel

Thursday, May 13th 6:30 p.m.

The Center for Fiction17
East 47th Street New York, NY
www.centerforfiction.org and www.marinabudhos.com

Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring dance, they love spending time with their best friends after school, sharing frappes and complaining about the other kids. But there’s one big difference: all three are daughters of maids and nannies. And they go to school with the very same kids whose families their mothers work for.

That difference grows even bigger—and more painful—when Jaya’s mother is accused of theft and Jaya’s small, fragile world collapses.

When tensions about immigrants start to erupt, fracturing this perfect, serene suburb, all three girls are tested, as outsiders—and as friends. Each of them must learn to find a place for themselves in a town that barely notices they exist.

Marina Budhos gives us a heartbreaking and eye-opening story of friendship, belonging, and finding the way home.

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“These fully realized heroines are full of heart, and their passionate struggles against systemic injustice only make them more inspiring. Keenly necessary.”
– KIRKUS REVIEWS

, starred“Budhos offers no easy answers here, just the hope that the characters, and the society in general, will find the right direction.”
– BOOKLIST

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