First Draft Episode #312: Tanaz Bhathena

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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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