Take a look at the Table of Contents: Discussion Questions What’s included in The Green Ember activity guide? Smith that is only accessible through this guide. Start your book club off with a personal video welcome from S. Let your imagination be your guide as well! Green ember discussion free#Feel free to adapt it to suit the needs of your group. I would have absolutely loved it as a teenager.We want you to use this pack as a guide to help you through The Green Ember book club or party. But if I’d also been able to read a book like “All My Rage” back then, I would have gotten all of that, and perhaps also a greater appreciation for my own culture and the understanding that I wasn’t the only brown kid struggling at a mostly white school. fiction, and I hope it gains as much buzz as her fantasy series, “An Ember in the Ashes.” When I was a teenager, I devoured books like John Green’s “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Looking for Alaska.” They were some of the earliest narratives that taught me about heartbreak, hope and desire. “All My Rage” is Tahir’s first book of contemporary Y.A. She pays attention to the details of how teenagers cope when they feel alone - for instance, how they cling to music as a refuge and dream of an escape. She captures the complex identity crisis that can come with being born in another country but growing up primarily in the United States. Tahir, who is Pakistani American, lived in her family’s motel while growing up in the Mojave Desert, just like Salahudin. Throughout “All My Rage,” Tahir centers brown teenagers and poignantly portrays how they yearn for a sense of home. The question of whether they can rebuild their friendship, and whether they will realize their romantic feelings for each other, drives the book forward. Their friendship, and potential romance, is a life raft for them. They understand each other when it seems as if no one else does. Noor is able to believe that she can break free of Juniper. When they’re together, Salahudin is able to put aside his anger at his parents. But as Misbah gets sicker and has to be hospitalized, they are forced into a reunion, both to care for Misbah and also to support each other emotionally. When we’re first introduced to the pair, they aren’t speaking because of an argument they’ve had. The story alternates between their points of view, with chapters from the perspective of Salahudin’s mom, Misbah, added to the mix, revealing what Misbah’s early life was like - how she lived in Pakistan before she moved to the United States, how she had an arranged marriage at a young age, what influenced her choices as a mother.Īs I read, I couldn’t help rooting for Salahudin and Noor. Meanwhile, Salahudin is trying to manage his family’s motel, with little help from his alcoholic father, as his mother’s health deteriorates. Noor is battling her uncle-turned-guardian, who wants her to work at his liquor store rather than follow her dream of attending college. But both struggle to see a way out, especially as they handle separate crises. The novel follows two best friends, Salahudin and Noor, who want more than what their small town of Juniper, Calif., can offer. “All My Rage” isn’t a book about food, necessarily, but Tahir’s care and attention to South Asian meals is one of many aspects of her latest novel that show the importance of feeling connected to home. That’s because Tahir’s delightful descriptions of Pakistani food - “hot ghee popping off the pan,” “soft chunks of meat falling off the bone into a cumin-scented sauce,” “potato pakoras, stuffed with skinny green chilies and fresh from the fryer,” and more - made me crave my family’s own Indian cooking. If I had read Sabaa Tahir’s new book, “All My Rage,” anywhere but my parents’ home, it would have been torturous.
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