JAYA & RASA: A LOVE STORY. Copyright © 2017 Sonia Patel. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written consent from the publisher, except for brief quotations for reviews. For further information, write Cinco Puntos Press, 701 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX 79901; or call (915)-838-1625.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Patel, Sonia, author.
Title: Jaya and Rasa: a love story / by Sonia Patel.
Description: First edition. | El Paso, Texas: Cinco Puntos Press, 2017.
Summary: “In Hawaii, seventeen-year-old Jaya Mehta is a transgender outsider with depressive tendencies and the stunningly beautiful Rasa Santos thinks sex is her only power. Will their love transcend and pull them forward or will they remain stuck, separate, in the chaos of their pasts?”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017018314| ISBN 978-1-941026-88-5 (ebook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Love—Fiction. | Family problems—Fiction. | East Indian Americans—Fiction. | Racially mixed people—Fiction. | Transgender people—Fiction. | Hawaii—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.P377 Jay 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017018314
Cover Illustration by Zeke Peña
(keep yr. eye out for Zeke’s first graphic novel, coming soon! This graphic novel was written by Isabel Quintero. Zeke first met Isabel when he llustrated the cover for her debut, GABI, A GIRL IN PIECES. And Sonia Patel, being drawn to GABI, A GIRL IN PIECES by that very cover, sent her book RANI PATEL IN FULL EFFECT to us, wanting, maybe, to also have Zeke draw her cover. Which he did. Things going around and coming around.)
Design and layout by Rogelio Lozano / Loco Workshop
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CONTENTS
CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA SOFT-SERVE
NICE GIRLS DON’T LIKE NICE GUYS