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All My Rage: A Novel
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National Book Award WINNER
Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNER
An INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
An INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER!
Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNER
An INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
An INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER!
“All My Rage is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don’t fit in.” — New York Times Book Review
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents.
Lahore, Pakistan. Then.
Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds’ Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start.
Juniper, California. Now.
Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding.
Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him—and Juniper—forever.
When Sal’s attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth—and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst.
From one of today’s most cherished and bestselling young adult authors comes a breathtaking novel of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness—one that’s both tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity.
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All My Rage: A Novel
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Original price was: $12.99.$8.99Current price is: $8.99.
Sonia Camisotti –
I loved this book. Very powerful story.
Amazon Customer –
This is a very thoughtful and moving book that I couldn’t put down. It makes you reflect on life and realize how one bad decision-even when made with the bar intent-can change the course of your life. I wish the author explored the psychological impact of Sal and Noor’s abuse a bit more. I think if she had, this would have easily been a five star book for me.
Anusiyaa –
Packaging and quality so good
Haffsa Rizwani –
It’s been a while I’ve been so lost in a book that I could not put it down! I read it everywhere, on the train, on the plane, in lines, at home, during lunch – as the story keeps you so curious and involved with the character. Loved the writing style as well, which flawlessly moved between spaces and time. Highly recommend this book!
Delta High School Library –
An absolute must-read!
Sal 17, lives in Juniper, California with his sick mother and alcoholic father. Sal attends school while trying to help keep the family hotel afloat. Sal and Noor, 18, were best friends until they had a fight months ago and haven’t spoken since. Sal’s mom collapses and needs to be taken to the hospital while Noor happens to be visiting her. Sal’s mother passes away and her last words to Noor were to forgive. Sal and Noor try to mend their friendship but they’re both keeping secrets and trying to persevere through their own harsh situations. When life implodes, they both have to make some tough choices.
Likes/dislikes: I enjoyed learning about Pakistani culture and its languages. The author gives a comprehensive, concise content warning at the beginning of the book and lists resources at the end for help with domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, immigration and refugee rights, children’s defense fund, and women of color. I appreciate how the author portrayed harsh realities to readers in a way that is educational and with empathy but not graphic. This book is a must read.
Language: R for 147 swears and 3 f-bombs.
Mature Content: PG for brief undescribed kiss, drug dealer selling pills, mention of marijuana (weed), deeper kiss.
Violence: PG-13 for child abuse (a push against the wall), bloody face from abuse, kicking ribs, mentions of repressed sexual assault, continued abuse.
Ethnicity: Sal and Noor and their family members are Pakistani living in a predominantly white community. There is a Pakistani religious leader and his wife is Black. The Judge is Mexican American and the story contains mixed ethnicity police officers.
Nicola – Booked Up & Busy –
THIS BOOK!
Again, I went in blind and my heart was shattered. It is a heavy read, that is powerful and problematic, so approach with caution. How did this story have me feeling empathy for one of the worst characters in the story?????!!!!!
Sal and Noor are two Pakistani-American teens who are trying to rekindle their friendship after a falling out. Sal’s mom is gravely sick and he’s doing everything he can to help the family motel survive, while Noor desperately wants to go to college but her uncle who takes care of her wants to stop her.
The chapters are narrated by Sal & Noor, with flashback chapters narrated by Sal’s mother, Misbah. This is the first book I have read that focuses on the immigrant experience for Pakistani people and also the first book I have read that explores alcoholism.
The writing is fantastic and the narratives are filled with musical tracks that help to convey Noor’s feelings.
I was going to give it 4.5 stars because a very traumatic and abusive event takes place but it is never detailed or explicitly stated, it is just implied.. I did want a bit more from this but it also made me realise that the writing was strong and skilful enough that something implied could still evoke an emotion from me.
Taking all the above into consideration, I feel so bad saying this, knowing how you may feel after reading, but… Please Read This Book!
David Rosell –
La prosa de Sabaa Tahir es impecable. Se coge cariño a todos los personajes y se sufre con ellos.
Shonda L Spencer –
Alcoholism, grief, abuse, guilt, addiction, betrayal, trauma, ANGER, bullying::: love, forgiveness, faith, trust, friendship, and prayer. I love that the author was able to touch on all this in a way that wasn’t overwhelming or confusing. This story was relayed so beautifully! I really love the author’s take on God and water.
Roman –
I heard from this book by a friend of mine talking about how this book resembles a lot of our cultural upbringing and conveys the notion of some bad parts of our culture in an interesting and thought – provoking manner. Thoroughly enjoyed the book and highly recommended it to most of my friends who might relate about the war between two worlds
Katherine –
All My Rage was my #1 anticipated release for this entire upcoming year. Not only am I a HUGE Sabaa Tahir fan, but we have an established YA fantasy author jumping over to YA contemporary? I say this a lot but SIGN ME UP.
I was not let down.
I knew from the dedication page, which simply reads “For those who survive. For those who do not.” That we were in for an emotional ride, and it was the BEST emotional roller coaster.
I dont want to explain the plot. The synopsis explains. I want to touch on why this story is worth reading.
We have main characters who are so accessible and real that even when they do something you WANT to be angry with them for, you aren’t. Because they are human and relatable and you understand their pain.
We have people making good decisions and bad decisions. Whether they are good or bad people doesn’t matter. What matters is the question of : why is this person this way? Can they change? Where will they end up in life?
This story is not black and white. No choice is easy or right or wrong.
We have casual racism, hard-core straight up outward racism, Islamophobia. Which is so difficult to read but also so necessary. There are moments that you think to yourself “this is so ridiculous.” Until you realize it’s NOT ridiculous, and that it is a struggle people go through daily and that we need to be reminded of.
We have inside looks to how substance abuse hurts loved ones. But instead of it feeling like an after school special or life lesson it is just life and facts and honesty about a disease.
The trauma and grief the characters are hiding from is expressed so well and so heartbreakingly real.
We have all the love and relationships the characters have with each other, the growth and journeys they go through. It really is such a coming of age story that hits hard in all the right places.
And most of all we have a story that consistently expresses a spark of hope in dark times, even when the characters don’t feel it.
I could quote hundreds of lines from the book but you should just go read it instead.
5/5 and it would be higher if I could.