American Fever by Dur E Aziz Amna
For fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice.--Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. 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. American Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781950994496 |
| ISBN 10 | 195099449X |
| Title | American Fever |
| Author | Dur E Aziz Amna |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Arcade Publishing |
| Year published | 2022-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction) 2023 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |