Are You Sara?
A Novel
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4.0 • 43 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Two women, each named Sara, get into separate rideshares . . . but only one makes it home alive. Which Sara was the real target?
Despite a scholarship, law student Saraswati “Sara” Bhaduri holds down two jobs in order to make her way through school, but it’s still a struggle. She’s had to do things to pay the bills that most people wouldn’t expect “a nice Indian girl” to do. Sara is working at the campus bar one seemingly ordinary Tuesday night when her boss demands that she deal with a drunk girl in the bathroom.
The two women become fast friends. Why? Because they have the same name. And despite their different circumstances, they connect. At the end of the evening, each orders a rideshare home. They tumble into the back of their respective cars and head out into the night.
But sometime later, Sara wakes up in the car to find she’s on the wrong side of town—the rich side—and realizes that she and Sarah Ellis took the wrong cars home. With no money, Sara walks back to her apartment on the shady side of town only to see police lights flashing, illuminating a body crumpled on her doorstep: Sarah. But was the target Sarah Ellis or Sara Bhaduri? And why would anyone want either of them dead?
In this smart, twisty novel about wealth, ambition and dangerous longing, the layers are peeled back on two young women desperate to break away from the expectations placed on them, leading to devastating results.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
CAN S. C. Lalli’s twisty thriller throws us into the middle of a mind-bending campus mystery. Something strange happened when bartender Sara Bhaduri ordered a rideshare for herself and for a very drunk patron named Sarah Ellis: Each girl got into the wrong car. Bhaduri wound up in an unrecognizable upper-class neighbourhood, while Ellis wound up dead. As the surviving Sara tries to connect the dots that led to Sarah’s murder, eerie secrets bubble to the surface. Are You Sara? is a fascinating story of two women from drastically different backgrounds facing similar struggles and an incredibly suspenseful read about surviving in a world of greed and corruption.