Author Tahereh Mafi shared her top picks for 2021 in the latest installment of “The Us Weekly Lit Club.' 📚
“It’s like an emotional gut punch — so beautiful and also heart-wrenching. It follows Evie, the main character, who has just experienced a devastating event in her personal life. As a result of what’s happened to her, she’s given up on love. She doesn’t believe in love anymore. And then all of a sudden, one day she starts having visions.
”“It takes place in 2003. It follows an Iranian-American Muslim teenager who wears hijab in a post-9/11 world. It’s a few months after the U.S. has officially declared war on Iraq, and the main character, Shadi, is dealing with this as the political backdrop of her life in addition to the many different struggles she is dealing with at home and in her personal life.
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