![]() ![]() They are adopted as infants and share a bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island’s most diverse and underserved neighborhoods. In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna. 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.Īmerican Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. ![]() On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, a Pakistani student, sixteen-year-old Hira, must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and try to understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. ![]() Join Dur e Aziz Amna and Zain Khalid at WORD Jersey City to chat about Dur e's new book, American Fever FREE EVENT at WORD JERSEY CITY! Seating is Limited RSVP below ![]()
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