Tahereh Mafi holds nothing back - and the reader is better for it.', Sabaa Tahir, New York Times bestselling author of the Ember in the Ashes series 'A raw yet astoundingly elegant examination of identity, loneliness and family that is unflinching in its honesty and power. I truly loved it.', Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star The very best books move you to reconsider the world around you and this is one of those. The prose is passionate and honest, unsentimental and big-hearted. It's tender and fierce, beautiful even as it depicts some ugly truths. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9781405292603 Number of pages: 304 Weight: 190 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm MEDIA REVIEWS It terrifies her -they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds - and Shirin has had her guard up against the world for so long that she's not sure she'll ever be able to let it down. He's the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know her. Shirin drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments - even the physical violence she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary YA novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice It's 2002, a year after 9/11, and Shirin has just started at yet another new high school.
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