On Sale Date: January 30th 2018
Pages: 416
Age Range: Young Adult
Fifteen year old Sarah-Mary Williams from Missouri.
Her mom has left her and her younger brother and brings them under with their strict religious aunt, to just come back later and leave them again somewhere down the road at a McDonalds.
Sarah-Mary lives in a fictional.dystopian United States where something very wrong happens; every Muslim is seen as an imminent dangerous person and is registered and detained in an internment camp. Sarah doesn't know any better then this, she doesn't know any Muslims and doesn't seem much to care. She just reads now and then that there is a national search for someone who didn't register. This is that she learns that now a woman is sought and that there is a price on her head.
After her mom left her and her brother at the Mcdonalds parking lot, she has to decide in a whim what to do now, the only option seems to be hitchiking, altough it's not very clear to where. Her brother finds someone that seems nice, a nice lady who seems to be from somewhere else. Soon enough Sarah Mary figures that this lady with her beret is no one else but the woman that is sought. Her name is Sadaf and she is from Iran, and no, she isn't a danger to anyone. She is just in the wrong place, and not in the free USA she always dreamed of. Soon enough Sarah learns that what happens to Muslims in the country is just dead-wrong. and during the hitchike they have to prevent that Sadaf's real identity is unveiled, and hopefully she can cross the border to Canada..
This book had a storyline I truly didn't expect. I heart though that there was quite some controversy about this book. I didn't get why. It's so obvious that the author wants to show that what happens is so truly wrong. That beside, it was entertaining to read, you just hope as a reader that Sadaf makes it into Canada with the help of Sarah who just tells everyone they meet on the roadtrip that she is her aunt fromd Portugal. They really become friends and Sarah changes from ignorant to something completely else and ses her own bad actions. There where some loose ends here, and there but overall it was good. I think the author really wanted to hold up a mirror to see what could go wrong if ignorance takes the upper hand and what would happen if this situation was real.
After her mom left her and her brother at the Mcdonalds parking lot, she has to decide in a whim what to do now, the only option seems to be hitchiking, altough it's not very clear to where. Her brother finds someone that seems nice, a nice lady who seems to be from somewhere else. Soon enough Sarah Mary figures that this lady with her beret is no one else but the woman that is sought. Her name is Sadaf and she is from Iran, and no, she isn't a danger to anyone. She is just in the wrong place, and not in the free USA she always dreamed of. Soon enough Sarah learns that what happens to Muslims in the country is just dead-wrong. and during the hitchike they have to prevent that Sadaf's real identity is unveiled, and hopefully she can cross the border to Canada..
This book had a storyline I truly didn't expect. I heart though that there was quite some controversy about this book. I didn't get why. It's so obvious that the author wants to show that what happens is so truly wrong. That beside, it was entertaining to read, you just hope as a reader that Sadaf makes it into Canada with the help of Sarah who just tells everyone they meet on the roadtrip that she is her aunt fromd Portugal. They really become friends and Sarah changes from ignorant to something completely else and ses her own bad actions. There where some loose ends here, and there but overall it was good. I think the author really wanted to hold up a mirror to see what could go wrong if ignorance takes the upper hand and what would happen if this situation was real.
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