Such Great Heights
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 11 Aug 2026
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- 105,00 kr
Publisher Description
Siya Kumar is done with liars.
Part of the reason Siya joins her school’s mock trial team is to honor the memory of her mother, a lawyer who was killed in a car accident when Siya was just ten years old. Her mom always told her that the truth is like a flame that burns away lies.
When Raj Raghavan, varsity soccer star and mock trial co-captain, seems interested in Siya, it feels too good to be true. Everything is golden until an overnight team bonding session, when Siya accidentally gets locked in a room with another guy until dawn. Even though Siya swears nothing happened, she doesn’t feel like Raj believes her.
At the same time, the details of the mock trial case are suspiciously similar to the circumstances of her mom’s death—which leads Siya to wonder if it was really just a car accident that took her mother’s life.
From award-winning author Rajani LaRocca comes a contemporary retelling of the Ramayana that asks whether seeking the truth is always the right thing to do. Sometimes, is the past better left behind?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Upon learning new details about her mother's death, a teenager's life is thrown into chaos in this captivating YA debut from LaRocca (Sona and the Golden Beasts), who draws inspiration from Hindu epic the Ramayana. Indian American high school junior Siya Kumar longs to be like her late mother, a corporate lawyer who worked pro bono cases at night, who died in a car accident when Siya was 10. As Siya—a member of the mock trial team at Plumbhurst, N.J.'s Bright Academy—looks over the club's latest materials, she's shocked to discover that the current trial's fabricated case notes closely mirror the circumstances surrounding her mother's accident. Though she wants to believe it's a coincidence, case details surrounding the deceased's rocky marriage leave Siya wondering if it's possible that her father and older sister have been hiding things from her. Tension mounts when photos of Siya and fellow mock trial team members in seemingly compromising situations—taken when she thought they were alone—appear on social media. Intelligent Siya proves a levelheaded and take-charge protagonist whose quest for answers and justice never wavers, even as she contends with conflicting loyalties and hard truths brought about by uncovering family secrets. Themes of honesty and integrity permeate an intelligently wrought narrative filled with unforeseen twists. Ages 13–up.
