Marina Budhos

• May-1995
• / Literary
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House of Waiting is a sweeping, lyrical first novel by Marina Tamar Budhos that charts the stormy marriage between Sarah Weissberg, a sheltered New York woman of Orthodox Jewish parentage, and Roland Sing, a charismatic Indo-Caribbean man. The two ar...

• Mar-1999
• / General Fiction
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Megan, who has served from childhood as prote+a7ge+a7 and helper to her father, a Guyanese scientist, finds the pull between family and society overwhelming as her father descends into jealousy and madness when she nears adulthood. 12,500 first print...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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"You forget. You forget you don't really exist here, that this isn't your home." Since emigrating from Bangladesh, fourteen-year-old Nadira and her family have been living in New York City on expired visas, hoping to realize their dream of becomin...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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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 frapp - s and complaining ab...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction
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Marina Budhos’s extraordinary and timely novel examines what it’s like to grow up under surveillance, something many Americans experience and most Muslim Americans know. Naeem is far from the “model teen.” Moving fast in his immigrant nei...

• Sep-2019
• / General Fiction
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In the tumult of 1970s New York City, seventh graders are bussed from their neighborhood in Queens to integrate a new school in South Jamaica. Jamila Clarke. Josie Rivera. Francesca George. Three mixed-race girls, close friends whose immigrant par...

• Nov-2022
• / General Fiction
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When a teenage girl’s single mom is taken by ICE, everything changes -- all of her hopes and dreams for the future have turned into survival.Seventeen-year-old Rania is shaken awake in her family's apartment in Brooklyn. ICE is at the door, taking ...