{"product_id":"unprecedented-times-0787","title":"Unprecedented Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalavika Kannan establishes herself as an inimitable voice of Gen Z in this piercing coming-of-age debut novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnprecedented Times\u003c\/i\u003e holds all the youth and assurance of a fresh new day. Malavika Kannan writes with a rare fearlessness about what the world promises versus what our lives actually turn out to be. A deeply propulsive read, as well as wonderfully insightful and funny. \u003ci\u003eUnprecedented Times\u003c\/i\u003e is a bright and lovely work.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e -- Kristen Arnett, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eStop Me if You've Heard This On\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich comes first: experience or narrative? Rishi thinks she knows the answer as she arrives on campus for her first year at Stanford. A burnt-out youth climate activist, she used to want to save the world, but now she just wants to have gay sex. Her plan is set--she's going to leave behind the strict trappings of her Indian American childhood in Florida, study literature, experiment with love, and write all about it. Within a few months, she makes her first best friend, falls in love with her situationship, and promptly gets her heart broken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is not a part of Rishi's plan 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. Instead of virtual college, however, Rishi and her classmates join a farm collective, where their political discussions and growing disillusionment collide 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnprecedented Times\u003c\/i\u003e captures the beauty, humor, pain, and straight-up chaos that exist in relationships between best friends and 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 Gen Z American women: of writing oneself into existence where no previous script exists. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalavika Kannan\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 2001) is a Tamil American writer whose work appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, The \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her villain origin story is that, as a teenager in Florida, she organized for generational movements such as March for Our Lives and the Women's March. Her YA novel \u003ci\u003eAll the Yellow Suns\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2023. She graduated from Stanford University and now moonlights as a gay socialite in Brooklyn, where she co-hosts the popular mutual aid supper club Girls Eat Girls. You can follow her on Instagram @malavika.kannan and on TikTok @literarymal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Malavika Kannan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52792633884957,"sku":"9781250420787","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250420787.jpg?v=1787260093","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/unprecedented-times-0787","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}