Description"...delivers a fast-paced, energetic tale resonating with today\'s most troubling and important issues." -KIRKUS REVIEWSAzza Amari, a headstrong, hijab-wearing international student flees her dangerous life in the Paris ghetto to enroll at staid Northwestern Ohio State College.
Their whimsical search takes on deadly serious overtones as the strange duo inadvertently finds themselves peeling back the corrosive layers of cowardice and hate that linger just below the surface of their society in the Heartland..
Things come to a head when Kip and Azza find themselves on an unusual treasure hunt.
All the while, the conservative hamlet--and especially Birdie--struggles to come to grips with what seems like the whole of the Islamic world has intruded into their workaday lives.
Together, Kip and Azza discover an extraordinary kinship.
As the twentysomething refugee navigates her way among the commuter school\'s working-class environs in tiny Fremont, Ohio, Azza comes into the orbit of 17-year-old Kip Beckelhymer, a precocious, history-obsessed senior trying to win back the love of Birdie Hudgins, his mercurial high-school sweetheart.
Description"...delivers a fast-paced, energetic tale resonating with today\'s most troubling and important issues." -KIRKUS REVIEWSAzza Amari, a headstrong, hijab-wearing international student flees her dangerous life in the Paris ghetto to enroll at staid Northwestern Ohio State College
