![]() “A story that is smart, surprising, and utterly engrossing. Prasad breathes fresh life into this much beloved tale, offering us something new, a fusion of Lost, Prep, Gossip Girl, and William Golding’s classic.” ![]() “Here, at last, is Lord of the Flies for girls. “If Lord of the Flies met Gossip Girl and spawned a first-rate book, filled with adventure and moving, surprising struggles against Nature and our nature, Damselfly would be it.” –Neela Vaswani, author o You Have Given Me a Country and Same Sun Here ![]() Terrors of a dark jungle night and a group of classmates’ eroding humanity keep the reader transfixed and transported.” “Who are we when we are only accountable to ourselves? In the gripping Damselfly-a Lord of the Flies for the digital age-Prasad’s characters are stripped of every trapping of civilization. –Marina Budhos, author of Watched and Ask Me No Questions ![]() A ForeWord Book of the Year You Have Given Me a Country is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be multicultural. A brave take on teen cruelty, identity, mixed race, class and survival.” American Book Award Winner: A 'mesmerizing' memoir about identity from the daughter of an Irish-Catholic mother and a Sindhi-Indian father (Chandra Prasad, editor of Mixed ). “Chandra Prasad give us a terrifying, modern-day Lord of the Flies, rendered in exquisite and exacting prose. ![]()
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