All My Rage
by Sabaa Tahir (Author)
National Book Award WINNER
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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Gr 9 Up--In a genre flip from fantasy, Tahir has created a contemporary novel that spans both time and place. In past Pakistan, Misbah weds Toufiq in an arranged marriage that results in a move to California after upheaval at home. Now they run a small hotel in the Mojave Desert. Their son Salahudin and dear family friend Noor hold a connection bound by their history and the challenges they face due to Islamophobia, racism, and more. When his mother's health fails and his father battles alcoholism as he grieves, the financial and maintenance aspects of the hotel fall to Sal, who takes drastic measures to save the hotel his mother loved so very much. Simultaneously, Noor is striving to leave her uncle's grasp by planning to go away to college, but finds herself caught up by Sal's choices. Tahir's lyrical prose unpacks both the beautiful and the brutal. She deftly captures the layers of grief, rage, family, examination of faith, and forgiveness, while managing to inject levity into dire situations and provide a semblance of hope. Music aficionados will revel in the songs referenced throughout various scenes in the book. VERDICT This deep dive into the complex ferocity of emotions within families is a love letter to Pakistani culture and revelations from the past that test the boundaries of survival. Put this book at the top of your list.--Lisa Krok, Morley Lib., Cleveland, OH
Copyright 2021 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.Publishers Weekly
Tahir (the Ember in the Ashes series) explores heavy themes, including grief, racism, financial need, trauma, and substance abuse, in a far-reaching novel that follows a working-class Pakistani American family across two generations. Years after 18-year-old Misbah enters an arranged marriage in Lahore and moves to Juniper, Calif., her 18-year-old son Sal worries over the family's motel, while his father becomes increasingly reliant on alcohol and Misbah's kidney disease worsens. To compound matters, Sal has fallen out with best friend and fellow Pakistani American Noor, 18, whose confession of love, and Sal's brutal rejection of it, splintered their previously tight connection. Now Noor juggles work at her uncle's liquor shop with secret, forbidden dreams of university. When Sal learns that his family is heavily indebted and about to lose their motel, it sets off a chain reaction that forces them both into a spiral of desperation, with seemingly no way out. Narrated in a clean, fluid prose style through alternating chapters voiced by Misbah, Noor, and Sal, this powerful, viscerally told novel unfolds across the past and present, painting solidly multidimensional characters alongside vividly wrought connections and pressure. Ages 14-up. Agent: Alexandra Machinist, ICM Partners. (Mar.)
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
National Book Award Winner
Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNER
Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Winner
A Walter Award Honor Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Book Page Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Best Book of 2022
A Booklist 2022 Editor's Choice Top of the List Winner for Youth Fiction
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Shelf Awareness Best YA Book of 2022
A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2022
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2022
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2022
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2022
One of The New York Times' 10 Best California Books of 2022
An Amazon Best Book of the Year
Audible's Best of 2022: Top Pick
An AudioFile Best Audiobook of 2022
A Read With Jenna Jr. Book Club Selection
One of The Mary Sue's 10 Best YA Novels of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Selection "This is not the Sabaa Tahir you know...but it's the Sabaa Tahir you NEED to know. All My Rage is a gorgeous, star-crossed story about the costs of the American Dream and the way unexpected routes appear when you need them most. I read this in a single day." - Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways "Searing. Riveting. Beautiful. All My Rage takes the reader on an unforgettable journey into the heart of love. Exploring the painful truths of hidden traumas and the crush of broken dreams, Sabaa Tahir shows us the healing, redemptive power of forgiveness, of hope, of connection in her stunning contemporary debut." —Samira Ahmed, New York Times bestselling author of Internment "We all know Sabaa Tahir is a master at creating epic fantasy worlds filled with terrifying, imaginary monsters. Here, Sabaa turns her considerable talent and skill to the real—but no less terrifying—monsters that dwell in the human heart. In richly evocative prose and with characters so well crafted I'm sure I know them, All My Rage takes a clear-eyed look at the ways in which we hurt and heal each other. It's a gorgeous meditation on grief and love and the possibilities each of us have for redemption. This book will stay with me for a long time to come." —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Is Also a Star "All My Rage is an unflinching, profound force that will rattle your heart and toughen your soul. Sabaa Tahir's razor-sharp writing never shies away from the world's harshness while always finding the light in the dark for our special, unforgettable narrators." —Adam Silvera, New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End
"All My Rage is an expert study in all that's tangled within the closest of our relationships—the pain and the love, the ugliness and the beauty, the potential to break and the potential to repair. Painful, powerful, hopeful, and magnificently crafted." —Randy Ribay, author of Patron Saints of Nothing "Tahir packs an absolutely unforgettable punch in her first contemporary YA. . . .This is the kind of book that positively climbs into your bones and steals your breath in the very best way." —Buzzfeed Books
★ "Tahir brilliantly shows how interconnected societal forces shape communities and people's lives through the accumulated impact of circumstances beyond their control. A deeply moving, intergenerational story. An unforgettable emotional journey." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ "A gift every step of the way."- Bookpage, starred review ★ "Heartbreaking but ultimately hopeful, this memorable novel leaves the characters with what they deserve most: a future."- BCCB, starred review ★ "This standalone novel feels timely and important and should be on every library shelf for teens." - School Library Connection, starred review
★"This unforgettable multigenerational contemporary YA novel delivers pain, heartache and anger - but also love, hope and redemption." - Shelf Awareness (starred review)
"Some of the best contemporary fiction out there is YA, and 'All My Rage' is one of the strongest new examples. This moving—and at times devastating—book follows best friends Noor and Salahudin as Sal tries to save his family's motel and Noor tries to strike out on her own."
—Marie Claire
"This powerful novel tackles everything from systemic racism to the fragile bonds of friendship."
—PopSugar "The first-person prose vibrates with adolescent intensity—of grief, desire, and above all searing rage—as Tahir's young heroes are faced with grown-up choices they feel ill-equipped to make. But equipped they are: with poetry, music, tradition, and their capacity to love." —Entertainment Weekly
YAF058190 - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
Families
Family life
Forgiveness
Pakistani Americans
Novels
