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Romance.
Young Adult Fiction.
Young Adult Literature.
HTML:"The bighearted, wildly charming, painfully real love story I've been waiting for." ??Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
"Heartfelt and powerful." ??Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
From William C. Morris Award Finalist S.K. Ali comes an unforgettable romance that is The Sun Is Also a Star meets Anna and the French Kiss, following two Muslim teens who meet during a spring break trip. A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes??because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together.
An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb's teacher, who won't stop reminding the class how "bad" Muslims are.
But Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, isn't bad. She's angry.
When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher, and he begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt's house in Doha, Qatar, for an early start to spring break.
Fueled by the guilt of getting her friends in trouble, she resolves to try out a newer, "nicer" version of herself in a place where no one knows her.
Then her path crosses with Adam's.
Since he got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in November, Adam's stopped going to classes, intent, instead, on perfecting the making of things. Intent on keeping the memory of his mom alive for his little sister.
Adam's also intent on keeping his diagnosis a secret from his grieving father.
Alone, Adam and Zayneb are playing roles for others, keeping their real thoughts locked away in their journals.
A young adult romance set in Qatar, by Indian-born Canadian author S.K.Ali, which also explores themes of racism, Islamophobia, grief, loss and illness. This is a rather sweet romance between justice-warrior Zayneb and the peace-loving Adam, both of whom have been separately keeping journals for years, documenting the marvels and oddities in their day-to-day life. When Zayneb is suspended for challenging an Islamophobic teacher she goes to Doha, Qatar to stay with her Aunty Nandy for the spring break. Here she becomes friends with Adam, trying to keep his recent diagnosis of MS secret from his father, while still grieving the loss of his mother from the same illness. Zayneb is still trying to trace the online activities of her teacher and get him sacked, and then is devastated to discover her grandmother’s recent death was from a drone bombing.
The romance is cute, and I enjoyed the fact that the main characters are Muslim, in a fairly real down-to-earth, “just people” kind of way. However I’m showing my age when I say I found the constant texting and emojis trying. The main characters would seemingly rather text than speak even when in the same room. Along with the repetition of “like” at the beginning and end of every sentence, and the obligatory Harry Potter references, but I guess that’s why it’s labeled YA. Zayneb does have a bit of the “I’m not like all the other girls” thing going. At times she is very relatable, especially with her experiences of Islamophobia-the swimming pool incident was very well done-but at other times she comes off as aggressive toward everyone around her in her wokeness. At the end of the book she does begin to realise there are more people who share her ideals than she had recognized. A romance with more to it than the average one, something I applaud. ( )
I adored Zayneb so so much and she deserves all the stars. But I think this one ended up relying too much on the romance to be moving the plot. I was way more intrigued by Fencer and the EatThemAlive hashtag than I was about Adam, basically at all. Sorry, dude.
I definitely recommend trying this and I want to go read Ali's other book, but I could have forgotten this book halfway through quite easily.
But Zayneb! Give me more Zayneb! Oh, and Hanna was a sweetie, too. ( )
This was not just a YA love story...it was a story of love for the Muslim religion. I’m so happy I read this book. It gave me a look, albeit through young adults, into the world of Muslim. I definitely learned a lot about this religion. I definitely squirmed at the behavior of the teacher. I would have done what Zayneb did, standing up for what she believed in. I loved the way Zayneb and Adam came together, balancing each other in the end. Looking forward to reading more by the author! ( )
"And that was an example of when she would get into her 'Seasons in the Sun' mentality. Because, the way she explained it, it wasn't her season at that moment; it was Vernon's turn to shine. She believed in such a world, where everyone got a turn, a season in the sun. She was a beautiful soul like that." [Auntie Nandy on Sylvia Chen, Adam's deceased Mom, p. 181]
I now know more about drone warfare than I ever have... I know that every US president increased the military's drone program, no matter what political party he belonged to.
Everyone had blood on their hands.
But I could not find the answer to one thing I'd been searching for: What made the public okay with it? With accepting the killing of innocent people? [Zayneb after learning her beloved Daadi (grandmother) was killed by a drone bomb. Her answer to her own questions is that fear of different cultures and peoples allows such terrors.]
This way of noticing that even during the suckiest moments in life there was something marvelous to be seen, heard, touched. Or just a tiny awe felt in the heart. [Adam, p. 270]
"I'm not a shouter, but I'm a helper. And I'd love to help you, Zayneb. Because you care about the right things." [Adam, p. 280]
Do they not look at the sky above them, how we have built it and adorned it, and there are no rifts in it? [from the Qur'an, p. 318]
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Romance.
Young Adult Fiction.
Young Adult Literature.
HTML:"The bighearted, wildly charming, painfully real love story I've been waiting for." ??Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
"Heartfelt and powerful." ??Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
From William C. Morris Award Finalist S.K. Ali comes an unforgettable romance that is The Sun Is Also a Star meets Anna and the French Kiss, following two Muslim teens who meet during a spring break trip. A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes??because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together.
An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb's teacher, who won't stop reminding the class how "bad" Muslims are.
But Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, isn't bad. She's angry.
When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher, and he begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt's house in Doha, Qatar, for an early start to spring break.
Fueled by the guilt of getting her friends in trouble, she resolves to try out a newer, "nicer" version of herself in a place where no one knows her.
Then her path crosses with Adam's.
Since he got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in November, Adam's stopped going to classes, intent, instead, on perfecting the making of things. Intent on keeping the memory of his mom alive for his little sister.
Adam's also intent on keeping his diagnosis a secret from his grieving father.
Alone, Adam and Zayneb are playing roles for others, keeping their real thoughts locked away in their journals.
Until a marvel and an oddity occurs...
Marvel: Adam and Zayneb meeting.
Oddity: Adam and Zayneb
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The romance is cute, and I enjoyed the fact that the main characters are Muslim, in a fairly real down-to-earth, “just people” kind of way. However I’m showing my age when I say I found the constant texting and emojis trying. The main characters would seemingly rather text than speak even when in the same room. Along with the repetition of “like” at the beginning and end of every sentence, and the obligatory Harry Potter references, but I guess that’s why it’s labeled YA. Zayneb does have a bit of the “I’m not like all the other girls” thing going. At times she is very relatable, especially with her experiences of Islamophobia-the swimming pool incident was very well done-but at other times she comes off as aggressive toward everyone around her in her wokeness. At the end of the book she does begin to realise there are more people who share her ideals than she had recognized. A romance with more to it than the average one, something I applaud. (