** a funny and affecting novel, understated but powerful, a wonderful new spin on the coming-of-age story.--KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED)** This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice.
It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna..
American Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home.
Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established home away from home upside down.
The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness.
A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. --Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, a Pakistani student, sixteen-year-old Hira, must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and try to understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. ** a funny and affecting novel, understated but powerful, a wonderful new spin on the coming-of-age story.--KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED)** This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice
