{"id":15898,"date":"2022-12-27T21:25:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T02:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=15898"},"modified":"2023-09-13T20:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T00:46:14","slug":"jesmeen-kaur-deo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jesmeen-kaur-deo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesmeen Kaur Deo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jesmeen Kaur Deo is an Indo-Canadian writer who grew up in northern British Columbia and now lives in Ontario.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Young adult)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TJ Powar Has Something to Prove<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Viking, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When TJ Powar\u2014a pretty, popular debater\u2014and her cousin Simran become the subject of a meme: with TJ being the \u201cexpectation\u201d of dating an Indian girl and her Sikh cousin who does not remove her body hair being the \u201creality\u201d\u2014TJ decides to take a stand.
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She ditches her razors, cancels her waxing appointments, and sets a debate resolution for herself: \u201cThis House Believes That TJ Powar can be her\u00a0hairy self, and still be beautiful.\u201d Only, as she sets about proving her point, she starts to seriously doubt anyone could care about her just\u00a0the\u00a0way she is\u2014even when\u00a0the infuriating boy from a rival debate team seems determined to prove otherwise.
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As her carefully crafted sense of self begins to crumble, TJ realizes that winning this debate may cost her far more than the space between her eyebrows. And that the hardest judge to convince of her arguments might just be herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2023 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jesmeen Kaur Deo personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesmeen Kaur Deo is an Indo-Canadian writer who grew up in northern British Columbia and now lives in Ontario. Fiction (Young adult) TJ Powar Has Something to Prove New York: Viking, 2022. Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website) When TJ Powar\u2014a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15898","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16801,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15898\/revisions\/16801"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}