American Fever

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Call Number: Fiction / Amna, Dur, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Amna, Dur E. Aziz
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Amna, Dur	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Amna, Dur E. Aziz	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Amna, Dur E. Aziz	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Remarkable debut novel submitted by rshah on June 16, 2024, 7:45am So many self-discovery stories follow a similar pattern or plot. This is not one of those stories. This is a story of, yes, self-discovery but told from a point of view that is so rarely explored. Like some self-discovery stories, American Fever is about a student studying abroad. But rather a student going from the US to other lands, this is a story about a Pakistani student coming to the US. And while there might be some similarities in the study abroad experience, the experiences of a female Muslim Pakistani high schooler living in small town Oregon is definitely not the usual story. What the story is, however, is a beautiful story that explores love, friendship, religion, family, home sickness, literal sickness, and learning to be comfortable in who you are even as you discover new ways to live. It’s a lovely read. And one that will stay with you long as the final page is read.