The weight of our sky
Hanna Alkaf2020
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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 harbours 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 neighbour tells her that her mother, a nurse, was called in to help with the many bodies piling up at the hospital.
Main title:
The weight of our sky / Hanna Alkaf.
Author:
Hanna Alkaf, author
Imprint:
New York : Salaam Reads, 2020.
Collation:
304 pages ; 21 cm
Audience:
Adolescent.
ISBN:
9781534426092 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Local class:
TF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2623444