delivers a fastpaced, energetic tale resonating with todays most troubling and important issues. KIRKUS REVIEWSAzza Amari, a headstrong, hijabwearing international student flees her dangerous life in the Paris ghetto to enroll at staid Northwestern Ohio State College. As the twentysomething refugee navigates her way among the commuter schools workingclass environs in tiny Fremont, Ohio, Azza comes into the orbit of 17yearold Kip Beckelhymer, a precocious, historyobsessed senior trying to win back the love of Birdie Hudgins, his mercurial highschool sweetheart.Together, Kip and Azza discover an extraordinary kinship. All the while, the conservative hamletand especially Birdiestruggles to come to grips with what seems like the whole of the Islamic world has intruded into their workaday lives. Things come to a head when Kip and Azza find themselves on an unusual treasure hunt. Their whimsical search takes on deadly serious overtones as the strange duo inadvertently finds themselves peeling back the corrosive layers of cowardice and hate that linger just below the surface of their society in the Heartland.

Binding: Paperback;254 pages; Publisher: Black Rose Writing; Classification: N/A; Weight: 432.98 g; Dimensions: N/A

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