{"id":34413,"date":"2013-10-22T03:09:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34413"},"modified":"2013-10-22T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T03:09:11","slug":"my-basmati-bat-mitzvah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34413","title":{"rendered":"My Basmati Bat Mitzvah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/Books\/My_Basmati_Bat_Mitzvah-9781419708060.html\" target=\"_blank\">My Basmati Bat Mitzvah<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amulet Books<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-01<br \/>\n256 pages<br \/>\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 1-4197-0806-6<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paula J. Freedman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/Books\/My_Basmati_Bat_Mitzvah-9781419708060.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/uploadedImages\/Books\/9781419708060.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the fall leading up to her <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bar_and_Bat_Mitzvah\" target=\"_blank\">bat mitzvah<\/a>, Tara (Hindi for \u201cstar\u201d) Feinstein has a lot more than her <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weekly_Torah_portion\" target=\"_blank\">Torah portion<\/a> on her mind. Between Hebrew school and study sessions with the rabbi, there doesn\u2019t seem to be enough time to hang out with her best friend Ben-O\u2014who might also be her boyfriend\u2014and her other best friend, Rebecca, who\u2019s getting a little too cozy with the snotty Sheila Rosenberg. Not to mention working on her robotics project with the class clown Ryan Berger, or figuring out what to do with a priceless heirloom sari that she accidentally ruined. Amid all this drama, Tara considers how to balance her Indian and Jewish identities and what it means to have a bat mitzvah while questioning her faith.<\/p>\n<p>With the cross-cultural charm of <em>Bend It Like Beckham<\/em>, this delightful debut novel is a classic coming-of-age story and young romance with universal appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Basmati Bat Mitzvah Amulet Books 2013-10-01 256 pages 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4197-0806-6 Paula J. Freedman During the fall leading up to her bat mitzvah, Tara (Hindi for \u201cstar\u201d) Feinstein has a lot more than her Torah portion on her mind. Between Hebrew school and study sessions with the rabbi, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,3601,8,15,820],"tags":[16199,16201,16200],"class_list":["post-34413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-religion","tag-amulet-books","tag-paula-freedman","tag-paula-j-freedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}