How Maya Got Fierce, Sona Charaipotra
How Maya Got Fierce, Sona Charaipotra
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How Maya Got Fierce

Author: Sona Charaipotra

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2022


Synopsis

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?

A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends.

About Sona Charaipotra

Sona Charaipotra is the author of Symptoms of a Heartbreak. She is a writer who has worked as a celebrity reporter at People and TeenPeople and has contributed to publications ranging from the New York Times to TeenVogue. She uses her master's in screenwriting from NYU and her MFA in creative writing from the New School to poke plot holes in her favorite teen TV shows—for work, of course. She is the cofounder of CAKE Literary, a boutique book packaging company with a decidedly diverse bent, and the coauthor (with Dhonielle Clayton) of the YA dance dramas Tiny Pretty Things and Shiny Broken Pieces, as well as the psychological thriller The Rumor Game. She is a proud We Need Diverse Books team member.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon on July 15, 2022

An Indian American farm girl from California spends the summer chasing her dreams of working at a fashion magazine in NYC. This #ownvoices YA romance had lots of Devil wears Prada crossed with 13 going on 30 vibes and a great cast of secondary characters. Maya mistakenly gets hired as an assistant f......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on January 11, 2025

trigger warning and other info at the end of the review This book was . . . interesting. Let's break it down a bit. “‘We’ll make it fun,’ Ranbir says, dipping his bread again. ‘Pooper-scooper!’” (45) Things I liked about the book! Starting off positive. I really liked the vibe and flow of the story. It......more

Goodreads review by Ayushi (bookwormbullet) on June 28, 2022

Thank you so much to Feiwel & Friends for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review! Ooooh this was such a fun read! Sona Charaipotra always has such entertaining novels and How Maya Got Fierce was no different. The premise of the novel was incredibly interesting. In this book, sevent......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on August 31, 2022

I thought this was a fun story and the comparisons to the tv show Younger (which I loved) were fair ones. Maya knows her future and she knows it isn’t up for debate. Her parents have a garlic farm and Maya will run the farm some day (like it or not). Maya begrudgingly goes along with her parents’ pla......more

Goodreads review by Veronica on July 12, 2022

I love this story. Opportunities and determination are a couple of my favorite things in stories and this book has it all. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I love that this is Younger meets The Bold Type (two tv shows that I loved watching). Maya mistakenly gets the assistant features editor position and now has to lie to e......more


Quotes

Praise for Symptoms of a Heartbreak:

"A rom-com with heart." —People

"Thought-provoking." —Entertainment Weekly

"Fans of YA contemporary don't want to miss this one." —Buzzfeed

"A rich, multi-layered story." —NPR

"Smart, tender and thoughtful."
—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Sun Is Also a Star

"Kept me glued to the edge of my seat from the first page to the last."
—Sandhya Menon, New York Times–bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi

"Readers will fall in love with Girl Genius Saira, who is fierce, brilliant, flawed, and utterly relatable."
—Samira Ahmed, New York Times–bestselling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters and Internment

"Pitch-perfect rom-com...absolutely unputdownable."
—Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Dumplin'