This is my debut novel, THE GIRL WITH BORROWED WINGS. I was eighteen years old when I finished the first draft, nineteen when Penguin bought the book in a preemptive bid, and will be twenty one around the launch date.


"Controlled by her father and bound by the desert, Frenenqer Paje feels like a list of rules in the shape of a girl. Then a small act of rebellion explodes her world and she meets a boy, but not just a boy-- a Free person, a winged person, a shape-shifter. He has everything Frenenqer doesn't. No family, no attachment, no rules. And at night, he flies them to the far-flung places of their childhoods to retrace their pasts. But when the delicate balance of their friendship threatens to rupture into something more, Frenenqer must confront her isolation, her father, and her very sense of identity , breaking all the rules of her life to become free."

How I would describe this book in my own words:

"A girl, living trapped in the middle of the desert, finds a boy with wings who can fly her away each night. But she still needs to return when daytime comes."

In Frenenqer's words, it would be something like:

"Please don't write me as the main character in a romance. Rinsai! Stop it!"