First Draft Episode #312: Tanaz Bhathena

Tanaz Bhathena, author of A Girl Like That and The Beauty of the Moment talks about her fantasy series, Hunted by the Sky and its sequel, Rising Like a Storm.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

• Thrity Umrigar, Parsi author of The Space Between Us

• Rohinton Mistry, Parsi author of A Fine Balance

• The School Library Journal and its starred review for A Girl Like That

• Driving by Starlight by Anat Deracine

• Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea

• Goosebumps and Fear Street by R. L. Stine

• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

• The Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (also Shahnama), a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE

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