{"title":"Shashi Bhat","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-most-precious-substance-on-earth-book-shashi-bhat-9780771094965","title":"THE MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE ON EARTH","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50313259417873,"sku":"CIN0771094965VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51475648872721,"sku":"CIN0771094965G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0771094965.jpg?v=1751263908"},{"product_id":"most-precious-substance-on-earth-book-shashi-bhat-9781538707913","title":"The Most Precious Substance on Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. A Chatelaine Summer Reads pick. Named one of the most anticipated books of the fall by CBC Books and 49th Shelf. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat's powerful, surprising and terrifying (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of \u003ci\u003e13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePen15\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bright, hilarious, and sensitive fourteen-year-old Nina spends her spare time reading Beowulf and flirting with an internet predator. She has a vicious crush on her English teacher, and her best friend Amy is slowly drifting away. Meanwhile, Nina's mother tries to match her up with local Indian boys unfamiliar with her \u003ci\u003eSaved by the Bell\u003c\/i\u003e references, and Nina's worried father has started reciting Hindu prayers outside her bedroom door. Beginning with a disturbing incident at her high school, THE MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE ON EARTH tells stories of Nina's life from the '90s to present day, when she returns to the classroom as a high school teacher with a haunting secret and discovers that the past is never far behind her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Darkly funny, deeply affecting, unsettling, and at times even shocking, Shashi Bhat's irresistible novel-in-stories examines the relationships between those who take and those who have something taken. THE MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE ON EARTH is a sharp-edged and devastating look at how women are conditioned to hide their trauma and suppress their fear, loneliness, and anger, and an unforgettable portrait of how silence can shape a life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50379905106193,"sku":"CIN1538707918G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50389106163985,"sku":"CIN1538707918VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53607496384785,"sku":"GOR012944213","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1538707918.jpg?v=1751118285"},{"product_id":"most-precious-substance-on-earth-book-shashi-bhat-9781538707920","title":"The Most Precious Substance on Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eJourney Prize winner Shashi Bhat's \"powerful, surprising and terrifying\" (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of \u003ci\u003e13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePen15\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bright, hilarious, and sensitive fourteen-year-old Nina spends her spare time reading Beowulf and flirting with an internet predator. She has a vicious crush on her English teacher, and her best friend Amy is slowly drifting away. Meanwhile, Nina's mother tries to match her up with local Indian boys unfamiliar with her \u003ci\u003eSaved by the Bell\u003c\/i\u003e references, and Nina's worried father has started reciting Hindu prayers outside her bedroom door. Beginning with a disturbing incident at her high school, \u003ci\u003eThe Most Precious Substance on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e tells stories of Nina's life from the '90s to present day, when she returns to the classroom as a high school teacher with a haunting secret and discovers that the past is never far behind her.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Darkly funny, deeply affecting, unsettling, and at times even shocking, Shashi Bhat's irresistible novel-in-stories examines the relationships between those who take and those who have something taken. \u003ci\u003eThe Most Precious Substance on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a sharp-edged and devastating look at how women are conditioned to hide their trauma and suppress their fear, loneliness, and anger, and an unforgettable portrait of how silence can shape a life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50389109178641,"sku":"CIN1538707926G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1538707926.jpg?v=1773316084"},{"product_id":"family-took-shape-book-shashi-bhat-9781770860919","title":"The Family Took Shape","description":"When Mira Acharya’s father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become that much more daunting. Ravi, her autistic older brother, requires special care but longs to be just like other children. Their mother must work full time to keep a roof over their heads and still make time to be a parent to an over-achiever and a developmentally challenged child. As much as Mira loves her mother and brother, she resents the situations in which living with them places her.   It is only when Mira is older that she realizes a truth she has been missing all along: though her family’s experience may be unusual, what holds them together – has always held them together – is universal.   Shashi Bhat’s debut novel, The Family Took Shape, is a touching, hilarious, and endearingly honest story about one unique family’s search for happiness in Canadian suburbia.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50426481705233,"sku":"CIN1770860916VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50501115347217,"sku":"CIN1770860916G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52154038681873,"sku":"NGR9781770860919","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1770860916.jpg?v=1751026526"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-shashi-bhat.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}