EAN: 9780062972415

AN EMOTION OF GREAT DELIGHT - TAHEREH MAFI GEBU...

From bestselling and National Book Award?nominated author Tahereh Mafi comes a stunning novel
about love and loneliness  navigating the hyphen of dual identity  and reclaiming your right to
joy?even when you're trapped in the amber of sorrow. It's 2003  several months since the US
officially declared war on Iraq  and the American political world has evolved. Tensions are
high  hate crimes are on the rise  FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques  and the Muslim
community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi  who wears hijab  keeps her head down.
She's too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the time to deal with bigots. Shadi is
named for joy  but she's haunted by sorrow. Her brother is dead  her father is dying  her
mother is falling apart  and her best friend has mysteriously dropped out of her life. And then
of course  there's the small matter of her heart? It's broken. Shadi tries to navigate her
crumbling world by soldiering through  saying nothing. She devours her own pain  each day
retreating farther and farther inside herself until finally  one day  everything changes. She
explodes. An Emotion of Great Delight is a searing look into the world of a single Muslim
family in the wake of 9 11. It's about a child of immigrants forging a blurry identity  falling
in love  and finding hope?in the midst of a modern war.

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