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Sheba Karim

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My fourth YA novel, The Marvelous Mirza Girls, is out now! It's a book that's very close to my heart. “Gilmore Girls meets vibrant New Delhi in this thoughtful and hilarious new novel about a teen facing family expectations, relationship complications, and hidden secrets in a new country.” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

My third YA novel, Mariam Sharma Hits the Road, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3..., about three best friends on a road trip through the American South, is out June 2018 from Harper Collins. It's the first YA road trip book featuring South Asian Americans!

My second young adult novel, That Thing We Call a Heart https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..., is out in May 2017 from HarperTeen. It features complex, Mus ...more

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Average rating: 3.39 · 2,584 ratings · 597 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leslie Jamison (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 987 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mariam Sharma Hits the Road 3.36 avg rating — 696 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Thing We Call a Heart 3.46 avg rating — 595 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skunk Girl 3.35 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marvelous Mirza Girls 3.22 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance by Rhoda Belleza (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kirsten Miller (Goodreads Author), Mayra Lazara Dole (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Has No Borders: A Collection of South Asian Stories by Sona Charaipotra (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Samira Ahmed (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anuradha D. Rajurkar (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.73 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alchemy The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories II 3.04 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yoni ki Baat: Musings and Monologues on Identity by South Asian Women by Vandana Makker, Anjali Maven (editor), Anjali Kamat 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If any of this ended in an explosion, I hoped it would be one that made us burn brighter, stronger than ever before.”
― Sheba Karim, Mariam Sharma Hits the Road

tags: brighter, burn, end, explosion, hope, mariam-sharma, stonger

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“It's easy when you're climbing something. Don't look down, or even too far ahead. Focus on where you are in that moment.”
― Sheba Karim, That Thing We Call a Heart

tags: decisions, focus, life, moment

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“If anyone heard us, I bet they understood, because one of life’s sad truths is that not all of us receive love but every single one of us knows pain.”
― Sheba Karim, Mariam Sharma Hits the Road

tags: know, life, love, mariam-sharma, pain, receive, sad, scream, truth, understand

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