All My Rage: A Novel
National Book Award WINNER
Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNER
An INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
An INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER!
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century
"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.
Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNER
An INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
An INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER!
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century
"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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Beautiful, tragic and hopeful. Life has struggles and when faced and challenged the greatest things come from the process.
This book is a real and powerful view of a few lives in an immigrant’s world. First generation to go to college, systemic racism, child abuse and the joy of smashing through it all with the truth. Loved this book.
This is one of those 5 star ratings where I wish I was a writer so I could fully articulate how profound and emotional this reading experience was
As someone who has received trauma education and wants to go into trauma work, I found the trauma representation in this book to be so deliciously nuanced. There are such important topics like intergenerational trauma, how trauma is stored in the body, trauma and its impact on memory, and the painful complexity that is knowing something cognitively while emotionally feeling something different. The way that Sabaa Tahir captures the feelings of guilt, shame, anger, sadness, and longing is so beautiful and relatable to my experiences that I found myself choked up many times while reading. The characters are multifaceted, and you will be rooting for them the whole way. I enjoyed expanding my worldview by learning more about South Asian culture as well as the social problems that set up barriers for immigrants trying to achieve the American Dream. I did not want to put this book down
If you're like me and love when a book gets you in your feels, then YOU WILL LOVE THIS. This book easily takes a spot on my favorites of all time list.
As someone who has received trauma education and wants to go into trauma work, I found the trauma representation in this book to be so deliciously nuanced. There are such important topics like intergenerational trauma, how trauma is stored in the body, trauma and its impact on memory, and the painful complexity that is knowing something cognitively while emotionally feeling something different. The way that Sabaa Tahir captures the feelings of guilt, shame, anger, sadness, and longing is so beautiful and relatable to my experiences that I found myself choked up many times while reading. The characters are multifaceted, and you will be rooting for them the whole way. I enjoyed expanding my worldview by learning more about South Asian culture as well as the social problems that set up barriers for immigrants trying to achieve the American Dream. I did not want to put this book down
If you're like me and love when a book gets you in your feels, then YOU WILL LOVE THIS. This book easily takes a spot on my favorites of all time list.
Comecei este mês a ler este livrinho sem saber muito bem o que esperar dele. Sabia que abordava temas fortes, tendo como "gatilhos"(⚠️trigger warnings) a islamofobia, violência, problemas de adição e a morte. No entanto, "All my Rage" é muito mais do que isso, é uma história de amor e amizade de duas almas desesperadas que procuram dar sentido a todo o caos que os rodeia.
Noor, é uma imigrante paquistanesa que chega à América com seis anos sem saber inglês e com uma história de vida pesada. Fora a única sobrevivente da sua família após um terramoto poderosíssimo que abalou o Paquistão, sendo este um acontecimento que mudou completamente o curso da sua vida. Se não fosse o seu tio, emigrado nos USA, a encontrá-la no meio dos escombros, Noor provavelmente também teria morrido. Assim, existe um sentimento intrínseco de dívida muito grande para com o seu tio que leva Noor a aceitar o inaceitável. Ele rejeita completamente a sua cultura e religião, pressionando Noor a abdicar dos seus valores e também dos seus sonhos. Mas tudo fica mais fácil para ela, quando conhece Salahudin que é filho de um casal de emigrantes paquistaneses que trazem o sonho de viver uma nova vida longe do passado traumático, Misbah e Taufiq. Misbah é uma mulher incrível que carrega demasiado sobre si: marido alcoólico e problemas económicos para gerir o seu negócio. Tudo piora, quando descobre que está doente e não conseguirá mais influenciar positivamente a vida de Sal e Noor, deixando esse fardo para o seu filho, que infelizmente começa a fazer más escolhas tentando a todo o custo conservar aquilo que a mãe deixara. Porém, na vida por vezes é necessário deixar para trás ideias, lugares, pessoas, de modo a avançar.
Tahir dá-nos música, que é uma ajuda poderosa contra adversidades. É sobre dor e o preconceito que as minorias enfrentam na busca duma vida melhor e como por vezes tudo parece descarrilar, porque para estas comunidades um erro é fatal e nem sempre existem segundas oportunidades. É também sobre como a RAIVA por vezes é avassaladora e pode consumir-nos, pelo que devemos tentar perdoar, ao outro e a nós.
Noor, é uma imigrante paquistanesa que chega à América com seis anos sem saber inglês e com uma história de vida pesada. Fora a única sobrevivente da sua família após um terramoto poderosíssimo que abalou o Paquistão, sendo este um acontecimento que mudou completamente o curso da sua vida. Se não fosse o seu tio, emigrado nos USA, a encontrá-la no meio dos escombros, Noor provavelmente também teria morrido. Assim, existe um sentimento intrínseco de dívida muito grande para com o seu tio que leva Noor a aceitar o inaceitável. Ele rejeita completamente a sua cultura e religião, pressionando Noor a abdicar dos seus valores e também dos seus sonhos. Mas tudo fica mais fácil para ela, quando conhece Salahudin que é filho de um casal de emigrantes paquistaneses que trazem o sonho de viver uma nova vida longe do passado traumático, Misbah e Taufiq. Misbah é uma mulher incrível que carrega demasiado sobre si: marido alcoólico e problemas económicos para gerir o seu negócio. Tudo piora, quando descobre que está doente e não conseguirá mais influenciar positivamente a vida de Sal e Noor, deixando esse fardo para o seu filho, que infelizmente começa a fazer más escolhas tentando a todo o custo conservar aquilo que a mãe deixara. Porém, na vida por vezes é necessário deixar para trás ideias, lugares, pessoas, de modo a avançar.
Tahir dá-nos música, que é uma ajuda poderosa contra adversidades. É sobre dor e o preconceito que as minorias enfrentam na busca duma vida melhor e como por vezes tudo parece descarrilar, porque para estas comunidades um erro é fatal e nem sempre existem segundas oportunidades. É também sobre como a RAIVA por vezes é avassaladora e pode consumir-nos, pelo que devemos tentar perdoar, ao outro e a nós.
We read this because everyone raved about it. I hated this book. I recommend it now to people I don't like because it is that bad.
I loved everything about this book from the tension it builds in the first half to the development of the characters in the second half. I ate it up and enveloped myself in it all. From the storyline of the best friends to the back story of Misbah, I strongly attached to the characters and their relationships. This would be a great bookclub read and a great cuddle up weekend read. This author wrote the story very well with proper warnings and closure.
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