She was born in a small city somewhere in Connecticut and currently resides in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, Ransom Riggs, fellow bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, and their young daughter.
Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series which has been published in over 30 languages around the world. Perfect for fans of the Shatter Me series as well as Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and Nicola Yoon's The Sun is Also A Star.
It terrifies her -they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds - and Shirin has had her guard up against the world for so long that she's not sure she'll ever be able to let it down. He's the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know her. Shirin drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments - even the physical violence she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. It's 2002, a year after 9/11, and Shirin has just started at yet another new high school.
I truly loved it' - Nicola Yoon, bestselling author of Everything, Everythingįrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary YA novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice The very best books move you to reconsider the world around you and this is one of those. The prose is passionate and honest, unsentimental and big-hearted. It's tender and fierce, beautiful even as it depicts some ugly truths.
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