If you chose to provide an email address, it will only be used to contact you about your comment. Shows what the U.S. was like in the wake of 9/11, emotions and day-to-day realities, especially about prejudice, hatred, and general cluelessness about other people. Main character Shirin wears a hijab, swears like a sailor, loves breakdancing -- and against all odds, falls in love with the most popular, good-looking basketball player in her sports-crazy school. She was a high school sophomore 2002, the year after 9/11. I made my way downstairs even though I knew I had a bunch of worried, and later, There was a plate of fresh herbs and radishes and little towers of feta cheese. Refine any search. Change ). I survived the first three weeks at my new school with very little to report. Shirin is tormented wherever she goes and has kept walls up around her for as long as she can remember. If maybe I'd allowed myself to be blinded by my own anger to the exclusion of all else. There are so many memorable parts that stick out. Here, I could be more than the settings applied to my life by society. It's about how people deal with that tendency. But I wasn't there yet.”, “Be honest. Shirin and Ocean both have to deal with a lot of pressure, expectations, and stereotyping in their lives, and don't always behave in ways adults would consider wise -- e.g. Why is that my job?”, “I felt blind and deaf at the same time, like i was moving through a fog, and i realized then- as i realizd everytime something like this happened- that i was never as strong as i hope to be”, “I was required by law and the wooden spoon my mom liked to whoop my ass with to show up [at school ]every day, so I did.”, “Listen. Reading this felt like a punch to the gut, a stark reminder of how different other people's lives are in comparison to the privilege that I've always had just because of where I was born and the colour of my skin. Instant PDF downloads. it never stops hurting. AKA, you need to move this to the top of your TBR pile ASAP. It's unflinching, it's raw, and it's real. Refresh and try again. When popular basketball player Ocean James falls for Shirin, she has difficulty trusting that his affection is real — and fears their relationship will not be able to withstand the bigoted reactions of … I saw nothing but the potential for pain and the subsequent need to protect myself, constantly”, “Ocean, azizam,” she said, “please tell Shirin she should stop swearing so much. So she's built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. I doubted he even knew what it was. I’m tired of begging everyone to understand that people of color aren’t all the same, that we don’t all believe the same things or feel the same things or experience the world the same way.’ I shook my head, hard. We're sorry, you must be a subscriber to comment. It only gets easier to recover”. Trust me. There are no summaries for this title yet. Through the events that unfold we are able to see the power we wield in making or breaking someone’s life. Numerous make-out sessions, including one in front of a lot of people, with intense kissing but not much more. Intense, emotional and resonant, A Very Large Expanse of Sea is a riptide that pulls readers in. View All Titles. Walk away from me because you hate me,” he said. Download the entire issue for the Kindle or Nook. “I wondered, for the very first time, if maybe I was doing this whole thing wrong. Why everything is shit?”, “Music made my day so much easier. It is also straight forward and understandable. “I got lost in the feel of him, in the heat of his skin, in the way his body shook when he broke away and I felt like I was dreaming, like I’d forgotten how to think. This book is very great! There's quite a bit about the harmful effects of prejudice and stereotyping -- and how to overcome your own bias and see things as someone else does, which forms a positive contrast to the barrage of hateful or clueless behavior from many teens and adults. So I started turning on a light....” My only hesitation: I was as shocked as Shirin was at the mercurial shift in her popularity at school -- success at breakdancing is sufficient to overcome Islamaphobia?
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