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A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut.
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 harbors 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.
But there are things that Melati can't protect her mother from. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother become separated by a city in flames.
With a 24-hour curfew in place and all lines of communication down, it will take the help of a Chinese boy named Vincent and all of the courage and grit in Melati's arsenal to overcome the violence on the streets, her own prejudices, and her djinn's surging power to make it back to the one person she can't risk losing.
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 harbors 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.
But there are things that Melati can't protect her mother from. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother become separated by a city in flames.
With a 24-hour curfew in place and all lines of communication down, it will take the help of a Chinese boy named Vincent and all of the courage and grit in Melati's arsenal to overcome the violence on the streets, her own prejudices, and her djinn's surging power to make it back to the one person she can't risk losing.
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From the Author:
Thank you for your interest in The Weight of Our Sky! While I do want everyone to pick up this book -- don't all authors idly daydream about bestseller lists and movie deals, after all? -- I'd like to warn you ahead of time that its contents include: racism, graphic violence, on-page death, OCD and anxiety triggers.
If you're not in the right frame of mind to take that on, please consider setting it aside and waiting until you're ready. No book is worth sacrificing your well-being for.
If this doesn't apply to you, then thank you for considering my book! It is a very personal one for me in many ways, and I hope Melati's story resonates with you in some small way.
About the Author:
If you're not in the right frame of mind to take that on, please consider setting it aside and waiting until you're ready. No book is worth sacrificing your well-being for.
If this doesn't apply to you, then thank you for considering my book! It is a very personal one for me in many ways, and I hope Melati's story resonates with you in some small way.
Hanna Alkaf graduated with a degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and now spends most of her time making things up as she goes along, both as a writer of fiction and as a mom. THE WEIGHT OF OUR SKY is her first novel. She lives in Kuala Lumpur with her family.
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