{"product_id":"american-fever-9781950994496","title":"American Fever","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice.\u003cb\u003e\"--Peter Ho Davies, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Welsh Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established home away from home upside down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Fever\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950994496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Dur E. Aziz Amna","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42223571140789,"sku":"9781950994496","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e129a8cb-f5d9-43b1-aae5-55b8186c51da.jpg?v=1655780916","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/american-fever-9781950994496","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}