But grief gnaws at you slow, a termite nibbling at your soul until you’re a whisper of what you used to be.” Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage the (broken) american dream Additionally, it felt like just the right amount of time was spent within each character’s perspective, and I thoroughly enjoyed the distance voices and pacing of the perspective changes. The perspective of Misbah (Sal’s mother) felt especially unique, especially for a story about a South Asian immigrant family, in that it provided more familial, generational, and cultural context than is usually found in the typical immigrant child experience story.

I really loved the way this book was told through the perspectives of Sal, his mother, and Noor. “I wonder what it’s like to be with someone who can love you through your rage.” Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage multiple pov.

This was not exactly a surprise, given that I’m familiar with Sabaa Tahir’s previous work, but it was really special to see how that style carried across genres, from fantasy to contemporary. When Sal’s attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth-and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst.įrom one of today’s most cherished and bestselling young adult authors comes a breathtaking novel of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness-one that’s both tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity.įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary YA novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him-and Juniper-forever. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends they are family. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match.

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