The Weight of Our Sky

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Synopsis
A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut.Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother&’s death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied.A trip to the movies after school turns into a nightmare when the city erupts into violent race riots between the Chinese and the Malay. When gangsters come into the theater and hold movie-goers hostage, Mel, a Malay, is saved by a Chinese woman, but has to leave her best friend behind to die.On their journey through town, Mel sees for herself the devastation caused by the riots. In her village, a neighbor tells her that her mother, a nurse, was called in to help with the many bodies piling up at the hospital. Mel must survive on her own, with the help of a few kind strangers, until she finds her mother. But the djinn in her mind threatens her ability to cope.
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
288 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781534426108
Related ISBNs:
9781534426085
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Hanna Alkaf
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Psychology
Grade Levels:
Seventh grade
Reading Age:
12–12
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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