All My Rage
Sabaa Tahir
Razorbill
Salhudin and Noor are like family, growing up together as Muslim outcasts in their small California town. Sal helps his parents find their American Dream in their family-owned motel, and Noor strives to make the grades she needs to get into a good college and get out from behind the counter of her uncle’s liquor store. But Sal’s mom is sick and there’s more happening in Noor’s life than meets the eye. Can Sal and Noor come together to survive all that life has thrown at them? Or will their American Dream crumble at the hands of an American society reckoning with racism?
Content Warnings: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death of a Parent, Addiction, Islamaphobia, Physical and Sexual Abuse (off the page), Racism
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This would be a lovely novel to teach in an 11th or 12th grade English or creative writing course. Tahir's writing is beautiful, and students working with character development and setting description would benefit.
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https://sabaatahir.com/
#1 New York Times bestselling author of the An Ember in the Ashes series, which has been translated into over thirty-five languages. She grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, raiding her brother’s comic book stash, and playing guitar badly. She began writing An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. She likes thunderous indie rock, garish socks, and all things nerd.
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