The 'Shatter Me' series author gave WWD an inside look at the pair of novels she released during the pandemic following Iranian-American Muslim girls in a post-9/11 world.
This book, “An Emotion of Great Delight,” is my second work of realistic fiction. I often struggle to talk about this book without talking a little bit about my first work of realistic fiction. My first work of realistic fiction, “A Very Large Expanse of Sea,” takes place in 2002, and that book follows an Iranian-American Muslim girl in a post-9/11 world. This book, the follow-up, takes place in 2003.
My first book, “A Very Large Expanse of Sea,” is about a girl who’s navigating this world, but also she’s a teenage breakdancer, and I, too, used to breakdance in high school. So these stories are not just about pain and grief, they’re also about just the basic humanities of long-denied marginalized people, and just the basic idea of humanizing them. I was more than my struggle, I was also just a teenager.
With “An Emotion of Great Delight,” post the beginning of the Iraq War, I mean, our mosques were being raided by the FBI, there were undercover FBI agents in our mosque, in our congregation, people we knew that we thought we were really good friends with would turn out to be undercover FBI agents, and almost everybody in our congregation was assigned an FBI agent and were being called and aggressively questioned on a regular basis, being asked to inform on people and to become spies for the...
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