This is a story that relates to my life and the lives of many other people. She wants to study film in New York while her parents want her to study law in Chicago. It’s the story about a young woman on the brink of the next phase of her life and wanting to go to another city to do it. The first half of this book actually spoke to me similarly to American Panda. Ultimately, Maya must find the strength within to determine where she truly belongs. The community she’s known since birth becomes unrecognizable neighbors and classmates alike are consumed with fear, bigotry, and hatred.
In the aftermath of a horrific crime perpetrated hundreds of miles away, her life is turned upside down. There’s also the real world, beyond Maya’s control. There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home, and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mom deems “suitable.” And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school and living in New York City-and maybe (just maybe) pursuing a boy she’s known from afar since grade school, a boy who’s finally falling into her orbit at school. Samira Ahmed covers it perfectly in Love, Hate, and Other Filters.Ī searing #OwnVoices coming-of-age debut in which an Indian-American Muslim teen confronts Islamophobia and a reality she can neither explain nor escape–perfect for fans of Angie Thomas, Jacqueline Woodson, and Adam Silvera.Īmerican-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. Islamophobia exists and it is the cruelest and most unkind form of racism.
The article doesn’t go into the details as to why, but the assumption is because of Islamophobia. Islamophobia is this prejudice and fear that because someone is Muslim that they’re automatically going to be a terrorist. She was wearing her hijab and a 57-year-old man came up from behind her and proceeded to punch her repeatedly in the back of her head. As I write this, I’m also reading an article about how a 19-year-old girl was attacked at her local hospital.
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