How Maya Got Fierce
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Publisher Description
In How Maya Got Fierce by Sona Charaipotra, The Bold Type meets Younger when a teen who gets her dream job at a fashion magazine, despite being only seventeen.
Maya dreams of working in magazines. But as the daughter of garlic farmers, her path is set: it’s off to Cow Camp instead. But when she ends up in the New York City area and realizes her cousin's girlfriend works at Maya's favorite magazine - Fierce - an opportunity falls in her lap to intern. It's her dream job, and she can't pass it up, even if means disappointing her family and lying to her parents.
The only problem? Maya hasn't accepted an internship. She's accepted a full time job, as a staff writer, and everyone at Fierce thinks she's 26.
Maya is so close to making her dreams come true, even if the glam life at Fierce isn’t quite as shiny and fun as she hoped. But when she suggests the perfect candidate for a big story—and manages to get the scoop—all eyes are on her. How long can she keep her real age from her boss—and her real life from her parents?
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After a series of mishaps and miscommunications, a small-town farm girl finds herself working at a women's fashion magazine in N.Y.C. in this theatrical fish-out-of-water story by Charaipotra (Symptoms of a Heartbreak). Seventeen-year-old Maya Gera, heir-apparent to a garlic empire in California's Central Valley, is being sent to cow camp in New Jersey for the summer to prepare for taking over the family business. When she realizes that her older cousin's girlfriend works at her favorite magazine, Fierce, she figures that taking advantage of this connection is her only shot at her dream: working in fashion. Unbeknownst to her parents, Maya applies for and receives a position, ditching the agricultural course. The only problem is that her new boss thinks she's 26, and what Maya thought was an internship is actually a full-time editorial position. As she secretly juggles her new job and her parents' increasing suspicions, Maya must decide what lies she's willing to tell and what she's ready to give up for her dreams. Charaipotra adeptly weaves Californian South Asian farm culture and the cutthroat world of magazine journalism with an endearing on-again, off-again romance via a determined, take-charge protagonist. Ages 14–up.
