American Fever
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"For fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. "This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice."-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl. On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. 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. American Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Arcade Publishing, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781950994496
195099449X
SUBJECTS
Muslim teenagers -- Oregon -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Oregon -- Fiction.
Pakistanis -- United States -- Fiction.
Foreign study -- Fiction.
Tuberculosis -- Patients -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Humorous fiction.