Zara Hossain Is Here
Zara Hossain Is Here
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Author(s): Khan, Sabina
ISBN No.: 9780702308369
Pages: 336
Year: 202104
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 14.04
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

A timely and honest coming-of-age story that explores the complicated relationship between identity, culture, family, and love. Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Texas since her family moved there for her father's work. While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not to stir up any trouble and jeopardize their family's dependent visa status while they await their green card approval. But one day her tormentor, star football player Tyler Benson, takes things too far, leaving a threatening note in her locker, and gets suspended. As an act of revengeagainst her for speaking out, Tyler and his friends vandalize Zara's house with racist graffiti, leading to a violent crime that puts Zara's entire future at risk. Now she must pay the ultimate priceand choose between fighting to stay in the only place she's ever called home or losingthe life she loves and everyone in it.


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