Unprecedented times a novel

"Malavika Kannan establishes herself as an literary voice of Gen Z in this piercing coming-of-age debut novel. Which comes first: experience or narrative? Rishi thinks she knows the answer as she arrives on campus for her first year at Stanford. Her future is set-she's going to leave behind the stri...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kannan, Malavika, 2001- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000008i 4500
001 on1533947548
003 OCoLC
005 20260820093400.0
007 ta
008 260318s2026 nyu e 000 1 eng
010 |a  2025049965 
015 |a GBC6087252  |2 bnb 
016 7 |a 300758819  |2 Uk 
020 |a 9781250420787  |q trade paperback 
020 |a 1250420784 
020 |z 9781250420794  |q ebook 
024 8 |a CIPO000412680 
035 |a (OCoLC)1533947548 
040 |a DLC  |b eng  |e rda  |c DLC  |d OCLCO  |d TOH  |d UKMGB  |d OCLCO  |d RNL  |d OCLCO  |d OWL 
042 |a pcc 
050 0 0 |a PS3611.A549385  |b U57 2026 
082 0 4 |a 813.6  |2 23 
100 1 |a Kannan, Malavika,  |d 2001-  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Unprecedented times :  |b a novel /  |c Malavika Kannan. 
250 |a First edition. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Henry Holt and Company,  |c 2026. 
300 |a 338 pages ;  |c 21 cm. 
334 |a single unit  |b mono  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/issuance/mono 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier  |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc 
520 |a "Malavika Kannan establishes herself as an literary voice of Gen Z in this piercing coming-of-age debut novel. Which comes first: experience or narrative? Rishi thinks she knows the answer as she arrives on campus for her first year at Stanford. Her future is set-she's going to leave behind the strict trappings of her Indian American childhood in Florida, embrace her queer identity, experiment with love, and write all about it. Within a few months, she gets a new tattoo, makes her first best friend, falls in love with her situationship, and even gets her heart broken. Rishi's final paper for Asian American Autofiction practically writes itself. What is not a part of Rishi's plan, however, is the onset of the COVID pandemic. As the outside world becomes a terrifying place, she increasingly finds solace in the friendships she's made. In lieu of virtual college, Rishi and her classmates join a farm collective and grapple with America's political situation and growing disillusionment-along with sexual tension and responsibility. It's only when those relationships start fracturing under the stress of careless decisions, unrequited crushes, jealousies, and, yes, unprecedented times, that Rishi begins to question her own story. Unprecedented Times captures the beauty, frustration, love, and pain that exists in relationships between best friends, lovers, mothers and daughters, and between storytellers and themselves. Malavika Kannan's fresh, arresting novel is a testament to the power of self-narrative for first-generation Americans: of writing oneself into existence where no previous script exists"-- Provided by publisher. 
650 0 |a Generation Z. 
650 0 |a Women college students. 
650 0 |a Interpersonal relations. 
650 0 |a East Indian Americans. 
650 0 |a COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023. 
655 7 |a Queer fiction.  |2 lcgft 
655 7 |a Coming-of-age fiction.  |2 lcgft 
758 |1 http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/in00024499702 
758 |4 http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/instanceOf  |1 http://id.loc.gov/resources/works/in00024499702 
884 |a DLC bibframe2marc v3.1-dev  |g 20260318  |q DLC  |u https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe2marc/tree/v3.1-dev 
994 |a C0  |b PCB 
949 |a schlow  |b SAPABR  |c Kannan  |d i  |e 39635104920637  |f 822673  |g loc  |h August New Books  |j 07/02/2026 
999 |a 520719