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How to Find What You're Not Looking For
Veena Hiranandani
Ages: 12+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Kokila/Penguin Random HOUSE
ISBN: 978-0-525-55503-2
Keywords: intermarriage, dysgraphia, racial discrimination, sisters, friendship, poetry
In 1967 when Ariel Goldberg's Jewish parents oppose her big sister Leah's plan to marry a man from India, the older girl disappears.