Yet when Misbah’s health takes a turn for the worse, it’s Noor who’s in her hospital room to hear her last word: “Forgive.” Noor reconciles with Sal and the two grow closer while continuing to keep secrets from each other. Noor’s been secretly applying to colleges and ignoring the texts from Sal’s mom asking when she’s going to visit so they can watch their favorite soap opera together again. Noor’s uncle adopted her when she was 6, but he resents that raising her has meant deferring his own dream of becoming an engineer and wants her to take over running his liquor store when she graduates. Misbah has been skipping treatments for her kidney disease, and Toufiq is drunk more than he’s sober. Sal’s parents, Misbah and Toufiq, run a roadside motel that has seen better days. Earlier in their senior year, Noor told Sal about the romantic feelings she’d been harboring for him, but Sal rejected her, and they haven’t spoken since. As the novel opens, both teens feel stuck in their small town of Juniper, which is surrounded by the Mojave Desert. In All My Rage, Tahir proves she’s just as skilled at contemporary realistic fiction.Īll My Rage alternates between the perspectives of former best friends Salahudin and Noor. Sabaa Tahir’s Ember in the Ashes quartet is one of the most influential YA fantasy series of the past decade.
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