“I’ll survive this. I’ll live. But there’s a hole in me, never to be filled. Maybe that’s why people die of old age. Maybe we could live forever if we didn’t live so completely. But we do. And by the time old age comes, we’re filled with holes, so many that it’s too hard to breathe. So many that our insides aren’t even ours anymore. We’re just one big empty space, waiting to be filled by the darkness. Waiting to be free.” ~Sal
This was such an emotional and eye opening novel. Beautiful and heartbreaking, this book is written in a two narrative style about two teenagers’ individual struggles and their forever bond.
Abuse, addiction, death of a parent…Sal and Noor have to rise above if they want to escape their small desert town. Keeping their faith strong even though the rest of the world is against them, they meet dead end after dead end trying to escape their reality.
Beautiful characters full of rage make this young adult novel messy and raw. This is my first Sabaa Tahir novel and it won’t be my last.
This was such an emotional and eye opening novel. Beautiful and heartbreaking, this book is written in a two narrative style about two teenagers’ individual struggles and their forever bond.
Abuse, addiction, death of a parent…Sal and Noor have to rise above if they want to escape their small desert town. Keeping their faith strong even though the rest of the world is against them, they meet dead end after dead end trying to escape their reality.
Beautiful characters full of rage make this young adult novel messy and raw. This is my first Sabaa Tahir novel and it won’t be my last.