{"id":10667,"date":"2019-06-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2019-05-29T16:47:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:47:40","slug":"from-away-to-here-love-from-a-to-z-by-s-k-ali-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10667","title":{"rendered":"From away to here? LOVE FROM A TO Z, by S. K. Ali (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hate-filled rhetoric in class – by the teacher!
\nUnwelcome diagnosis = uncertain future.
\nThis isn’t the time to fall in love, but\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zayneb clashes with her anti-Muslim teacher one time too many, is suspended from her Indiana high school, and sent early to visit her aunt in Doha for spring break – taking along her marvels and oddities<\/a> journal – as her friends keep investigating the teacher’s extremist connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam has dropped out of university in London, devoting every moment to creating before multiple sclerosis<\/a> robs the feeling from his hands, just as it did for his late mom – now heading home to Dad and little sister in Doha, with his marvels and oddities journal and guitar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her aunt and his dad work at the same school, so Zayneb and Adam officially meet each other at a teachers’ party, then socialize with his friends, as a group of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam keeps his diagnosis secret – how could Dad cope with another loss?
Zayneb mourns for her grandmother – what’s this new news about her death while in Pakistan for a wedding?
Spring break is short – can Adam finish the art installation for his sister before he cannot do anything with his hands?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long-term, long-distance – their possibility of a forever-relationship might be an oddity or a marvel or impossible\u2026start their story with chapter one, a free excerpt on the publisher’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the author of Saints and Misfits<\/em>, which I recommended here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When have you squeezed much happiness into a small timeframe?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Love from A to Z \/ S. K. Ali. Salaam Reads, 2019. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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