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020 $a9781950994496$q(hbk.) :$cUSD26.99
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092 $aAZIZ AMN
100 1 $aAziz Amna, Dur E.
245 10$aAmerican fever :$ba novel /$cDur E Aziz Amna.
260 $aNew York :$bArcade Publishing,$c2022.
300 $a232 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"For fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. "This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice."-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl. On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen- year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established home away from home upside down. American Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna."--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aTeenage girls$zOregon$vFiction.
650 0$aPakistanis$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0$aForeign study$vFiction.
650 0$aMuslim teenagers$zOregon$vFiction.