An unsettling and important book for our times. Ahmed keeps the tension mounting as Layla faces increasingly violent consequences for her actions the teenagers’ relationships are depicted authentically, and their strength and resistance are inspiring. While her parents shrink into compliance, Layla quickly makes friends and allies who band together to bring public attention to internees’ treatment, close down the camps, and put an end to the country’s fascism and Islamophobia. Still, her family’s abrupt nighttime “relocation” to a camp-during which each arrival is branded with ultraviolet identification encoding-is a shock. On a personal level, she was suspended from school for kissing her non-Muslim boyfriend in public, and her poet-professor father has lost his job. president’s weekly National Security Address. Layla Amin, the rebellious 17-year-old Muslim narrator, is enraged by the changes that her small liberal California community accepts: curfews, book burnings, required viewing of the U.S. Set in America in the near-future, Samira Ahmeds best-selling novel Internment (2019) explores what happens when an American government, controlled by duly. Like I’m supposed to be thankful to go to the public school where I’ve always gone in the town where I’ve always lived and where my parents pay taxes.Ahmed ( Love, Hate & Other Filters) sets her chilling novel in the very near future: two-and-a-half years after an election that brought about a Muslim ban, exclusion laws, and the internment of Muslims in a disturbing echo of the Japanese internments of the 1940s. Then, when I started to open my mouth to say something, my mom shook her head at me. My mom did, too, even though she wore a scowl the entire time we were in the office.

Even worse, even though David got booted, too, only my parents and I were called in to get a lecture about how I should know my place at school, keep my head down and be grateful for the privilege of attending classes there. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. Apparently PDA is against school rules, but I’ve never heard of anyone pulling suspension for it. Prime member exclusive: pick 2 free titles with trial. But I guess the Principal didn’t want to look like he was encouraging relationships between us and them. We were both suspended for two days from school for kissing me in the hall, in the open where everyone could see. Though we both know it’s not the same for him.

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