Author: Anjali Banerjee
Publisher: Penguin/Puffin
Year: 250
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143334921
Description
A vacant spot inside me grows bigger, For Rent, For Lease, Room Inside Maya, the sign reads.
Mayasri Mukherjee is a bright girl with an irrepressible imagination, born in India and raised in a Canadian town. She loves the land of maple leaf and snow, but sometimes she is not sure where she belongs. The only brown-skinned teenager in her school, she cannot speak Bengali or pirouette to save her life.
Just as Maya captivates the gorgeous Jamie Klassen, her beautiful cousin Pinky arrives from India. Her long shiny hair, sandalwood fragrance and magical dancing skills bewitch Maya's friends. Woe of woes, Jamie falls for Pinky too.
Pinky has brought a little statue of Ganesh, and Maya pleads with the Remover of Obstacles to get rid of all barriers to her happiness, a plea that backfires in hilarious and painful ways. In this delightful debut, Anjali Banerjee captures the dreams and turmoil of a teenager searching for her identity, her family and her own special culture.
REVIEWS
Maya Mukherjee is that delightful rarity in literature, a character who leaps off the page into your heart.
-Susan Wiggs
An entry to a world full of wit, confusion, wonder and excitement, A must read.
-V J Ramona
Terrific, funny and inventive.
-Paula Danziger
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
On Display
Maya in the Middle
The Girl in the Picture
Plastic Bubble
Good Toes, Bad Toes
A Smile to Die For
Eau De Joy
The Maple Leaf
Chronicles
Fragile
Music Lesson
Cousins together
The Golden God
Nair Girls
Yescandy
Shoo-R Ka Baccha
Lump of Nothing
Princess Pinky
Remover of Obstacles
Maya in Wonderland
Snow Day
Humpty Dumpty
Closer
Magical Mystery Tour
Butterfly Wings
Dreamworld
Maya and the Wolf
What Maya Wants
Backup Plan
Domino Ripples
Quelle Idee
Chai, Chai
The Heart of Things
Paus Mela
Maya Running
Maya and Pinky
They always say
On My Own
Mayasri