The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer’s life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism
Laleh Khadivi is the author of the Kurdish Trilogy. Her
first novel, The Age of Orphans, received the Whiting Award for
Fiction, the Barnes and Nobles Discover New Writers Award and an
Emory Fiction Fellowship, and was followed by the acclaimed The
Walking. She has also worked as a director, producer and
cinematographer of documentary films, and her debut, 900 Women,
premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Khadivi lives in
northern California and teaches at the University of San
Francisco.
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Powerful, poignant, excellent
*Independent*
Important
*Guardian*
Stunning
*New York Times*
With insightful, often moving prose, dialogue so exact it echoes
from the page, and a stunning balance between compassion and
merciless (often damning) realism, Khadivi begins to unravel one of
the miseries of the modern political era, which isn’t about
politics at all but is entirely contained within the flawed and
insatiable human heart
*New York Times*
The narrative is tense and dramatic … An expertly crafted
coming-of-age story about radicalisation and cultural
integration
*Guardian*
What would it take for a studious American teenager – the son of
hard-working Iranian immigrants, addicted to surfing, his friends,
his stoner way of life and girls – to forsake all of that and
become a radicalised Muslim? The question is explored brilliantly
in Laleh Khadivi’s third novel … The unerring precision of her
prose draws you, piece by piece, into Rez’s orbit and makes you
concerned for his welfare once the skies darken
*Herald*
Khadivi is a massive talent, lyrical, evocative, and unsparing . .
. Khadivi's feat is a crucial one, especially at this moment in
time, when young Muslim men are dehumanized by white Americans far
more often than they are understood to be complicated, and
individual, human beings …You won't want the book to end
*Kirkus Reviews Starred Review*
Engrossing . . . Khadivi's carefully crafted, masterful novel
illustrates how the perfect storm of teenage cruelty, racism, and
tragedy can create an extremist
*Booklist Starred Review*
Brilliantly channeling the minds of angst-filled teenagers with
barely formed worldviews who seesaw between brash self-confidence
and deflating insecurities . . . Khadivi has written an important,
smart, timely novel that rivals such standouts as Karan Mahajan’s
The Association of Small Bombs or Moshin Hamid’s The Reluctant
Fundamentalist
*Library Journal Starred Review*
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