Atia Abawi
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The Secret Sky by Atia Abawi
Set in Afghanistan, Fatima a Hazara girl and Samiullah, a Pashtun boy fall in love. It is forbidden for them to be together. When they go against their families there are dire consequences. What will happen to Fatima, Samiullah (and) their families for their act of defiance in a Culture that dictates who you can marry and love?
Fatima and Samiullah are kind, caring and very likable. Rashid, the cousin of Samiullah is envious, jealous, a troubled (dangerous) young man. Told in alternating voices between them, I was able to feel what they were going through. With vivid details and raw emotions I was pulled into their lives. At times I cried as events unfolded in this emotionally charged story. I recommend The Secret Sky to Adults and *Young Adult readers.
*17+ due to some graphic content… (mehr)
Set in Afghanistan, Fatima a Hazara girl and Samiullah, a Pashtun boy fall in love. It is forbidden for them to be together. When they go against their families there are dire consequences. What will happen to Fatima, Samiullah (and) their families for their act of defiance in a Culture that dictates who you can marry and love?
Fatima and Samiullah are kind, caring and very likable. Rashid, the cousin of Samiullah is envious, jealous, a troubled (dangerous) young man. Told in alternating voices between them, I was able to feel what they were going through. With vivid details and raw emotions I was pulled into their lives. At times I cried as events unfolded in this emotionally charged story. I recommend The Secret Sky to Adults and *Young Adult readers.
*17+ due to some graphic content… (mehr)
It is vital that the refugee crisis is told to all audiences, including young adult, and Syria is about as terrible as there is. But, while the characters were okay, the story was kind of dull. The volunteers, in particular, were not well developed either, although I liked Abawi's effort to include their perspective.
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Tareq, a young Syrian teenager, changes his daily routine as airstrikes on his city increase. When his home is hit by a bomb that kills most of his family in one day, Tareq is suddenly a refugee, traveling with his father and one surviving younger sister, Susan, to another Syrian town, then out of Syria to Turkey. When life in Turkey offers little hope, Tareq’s father sends him and Susan to make the treacherous trip to Greece by water. Through incredible dangers and suffering, they meet refugees and aid workers from across the globe. Abawi integrates just enough background information into the plot to make the story and characters comprehensible. The narrator is Destiny, whose authoritative voice suits the tragic and dramatic turns of plot. The narrator’s philosophical asides allow readers just enough distance to balance the intimacy of the suffering witnessed along the journey while helping to place the Syrian crisis in global and historical context as part of the cycle of humanity. The direct address challenges readers in a way that is heavy-handed only at the end, but even so it is chillingly effective.
A heartbreaking, haunting, and necessary story that offers hope while laying bare the bleakness of the world Tareq leaves and the new one he seeks to join . (Fiction. 12-18)" www.kirkusreviews.com, A Kirkus Starred Review… (mehr)