A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape.
Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds.
Ultimately, Maya must find the strength within to determine where she truly belongs..
The community she\'s known since birth becomes unrecognizable; neighbors and classmates are consumed with fear, bigotry, and hatred.
But in the aftermath of a horrific crime perpetrated hundreds of miles away, her life is turned upside down.
There\'s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems "suitable." And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school and living in New York City--and pursuing a boy she\'s known from afarsince grade school.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape.
Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds
