Penguin Teen Winter 2015 Preview by Sabaa Tahir

I still can’t quite believe this is happening to me.” “It’s a little overwhelming but also very fun.

“This debut year has truly been crazy,” says Tahir, 33, a dark-haired woman who is chatty, down-to-earth and modest, despite the fuss being made over her book. Paramount has already snapped up the movie rights in a seven-figure deal, and, according to Entertainment Weekly, foreign rights have been sold in 24 countries. At a time when YA fiction has never been hotter, “Ember” seems poised to be the next “Hunger Games.” After a launch party Tuesday night at Kepler’s Books, Tahir is embarking on a seven-city book tour. The Mountain View resident tapped into those hard-won insights in writing “An Ember in the Ashes,” a hotly anticipated new YA novel that published April 28. As a Pakistani-American girl growing up in rural Ridgecrest, she often felt the sting of racism. Jodi Picoult called the book 'a gorgeous, star-crossed story about the costs of the American dream.As a copy editor on the foreign news desk at the Washington Post, Tahir plunged into the brutality of war and chaos on a nightly basis. Kambhampaty's review for The New York Times calls All My Rage a 'love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don't fit in.' According to Kirkus Reviews, the novel 'confronts head on the complicated realities of life in a world that is not designed for the oppressed to thrive in.' Meanwhile, we learn about Misbah, Sal's mother, and what brought her to America.Īnna P.

Their friendship rekindles after a tragedy, but Sal's choices and Noor's secrets threaten to tear them apart. Sal wants to save his parents' business, a motel, but it is deep in debt. Noor wants to go to college but her guardian will not let her. Sal and Noor are former friends growing up in a small desert town. Īll My Rage takes place in the Mojave Desert of California and is told from three points of view: Misbah in the past and Noor and Sal in the present. It also won the 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Michael L. The book was a New York Times and Indie bestseller and was a winner of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. It explores two high school students struggling to balance family, grief, love, life and a desperate desire to escape a small town that only seems to be suffocating them. All My Rage is the fifth book written by Tahir and her first standalone book. It was published on Maby Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-bookĪll My Rage is a contemporary young adult novel written by Pakistani-American author Sabaa Tahir.

Penguin Teen Winter 2015 Preview by Sabaa Tahir