Their relationship is almost Romeo and Juliet-esque, but thankfully no one dies in the end. I was stuck in another small town, trapped in another universe populated by the kind of people who’d only ever seen faces like mine on their evening news, and I hated it.īut then there are those people who are so good, they help to block some of that bad stuff out. And I never thought I’d say that about a book with so much breakdancing. It’s been a while since a book with as much substance as this one has drawn me in so completely. What a beautiful, raw, heart-breaking, yet somehow uplifting story. If you do nothing else the rest of this year, you must read this book. What you might not think of is the genuine, emotional, fully seated-in-reality powerhouse that is A Very Large Expanse of Sea. ❤️Ī post shared by tahereh mafi on at 12:34pm PDT AVLEOS is the most personal book i’ve ever written. seven years later and i’m about to publish my eighth book and it’s hard not to reflect on a myriad of things. there was no one to talk to or turn to or rely on. i’d never heard of a Muslim woman on the YA bestseller list, never seen a woman in hijab on book tour. no one had ever given me permission to do this, to simply write books for fun, for pleasure-to make a career out of it. never seen a YA author who looked like me. i’d never heard of a YA author who looked like me. mostly i remember being terrified and feeling very alone. I sold my first book when i was 23, a veritable lifetime ago.
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