In the Country I Love
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1682638103
ISBN-13
9781682638101
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers,U.S.
Imprint
Peachtree Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 26th, 2026
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
514 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 14.30 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fictionGeneral fiction (Children's / Teenage)Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topicsPersonal & social issues (Children's / Teenage)Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and healthPersonal & social issues: body & health (Children's / Teenage)Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racismPersonal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's / Teenage)
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Two Iraqi American best friends—a struggling teen father and the community''s golden boy—confront dark truths about their families in the wake of a devastating crime in this heartrending YA debut.
As a seventeen-year-old single dad and a soon-to-be high school drop-out, Yassir Al-Azzawi''s lapsed Shia faith is just another thing convincing his parents he''s a failure. One more mistake, and they''ll send him back to their homeland, a war-torn Iraq.
Khaled Al-Hakim is perfect on paper: devout in his faith, a straight-A student, and captain of the debate team. But beneath the surface, Khaled is no saint either, and his worst sin yet is ignoring his parents'' command to stay away from Yassir.
When their secret friendship is exposed, the consequences set off a series of events that cause family secrets from both sides to come to light, and neither Yassir nor Khaled are prepared to learn the stains that taint their family names.
Told through multiple POVs across time, this authentic exploration of the Shia Muslim experience in the U.S. seamlessly combines classic YA themes of identity, coming-of-age, and relationships with timely social themes of racism, Islamophobia, and justice. This compelling, contemporary debut is perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir''s All My Rage and Markus Zusak''s The Book Thief.
As a seventeen-year-old single dad and a soon-to-be high school drop-out, Yassir Al-Azzawi''s lapsed Shia faith is just another thing convincing his parents he''s a failure. One more mistake, and they''ll send him back to their homeland, a war-torn Iraq.
Khaled Al-Hakim is perfect on paper: devout in his faith, a straight-A student, and captain of the debate team. But beneath the surface, Khaled is no saint either, and his worst sin yet is ignoring his parents'' command to stay away from Yassir.
When their secret friendship is exposed, the consequences set off a series of events that cause family secrets from both sides to come to light, and neither Yassir nor Khaled are prepared to learn the stains that taint their family names.
Told through multiple POVs across time, this authentic exploration of the Shia Muslim experience in the U.S. seamlessly combines classic YA themes of identity, coming-of-age, and relationships with timely social themes of racism, Islamophobia, and justice. This compelling, contemporary debut is perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir''s All My Rage and Markus Zusak''s The Book Thief.
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