This quickly turned into one of my favorite books of all time that i know i’ll constantly be thinking about in the back of my head. Reading the Urdu and Punjabi just made me feel so good. I was especially connected to the parts in the story that were in Lahore, Pakistan because that is where my family is originally from. i felt seen as a Pakistani-American Muslim myself. I definitely respect the Muslim rep in this book. i went to Sabaa Tahir’s book tour in Chicago for this book and literally hearing the way she just talks…like of course this book is a masterpiece. I found myself rooting and fighting for these characters from the first place to the last.
the way that grief, failure, love, struggle, and forgiveness is written in this book made me ACHE!! my heart was pounding and my eyes were puffy and red. Sabaa puts into words the way i think and feel. this book took me through all the emotions and i don’t regret it one bit. Sabaa Tahir deserves the world and nothing less for birthing this book. 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. 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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