Read for Your Rights Book Club: "All My Rage"

The Read for Your Rights book club is a 5-session series celebrating our access to unique and explorative information and stories through America’s Libraries. This series culminates with reading George Orwell’s 1984 during the month of October, in conjunction with the American Library Association’s Banned Book week theme “Censorship is so 1984.” 
 

We will read a selection of books that have been at one time banned by state or local systems and embark on enjoying stories told in a variety of voices, times, and circumstances.

Intergenerational participation is encouraged to explore books across life experiences. Age 16+

Participation in all 5 sessions is not required.

All sessions are from 7-8pm on the last Tuesday of the month in the East Lyme Room.

• Tuesday, August 26th: All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
• Published: 2022
• Genre: Young Adult Fiction
• Central themes: Generational trauma, grief/loss, injustice

• Publisher Description: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents.

  Lahore, Pakistan. Then.
  Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds’ Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start.

  Juniper, California. Now.
  Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding.

  Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him—and Juniper—forever.

  When Sal’s attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth—and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst.

• From one of today’s most cherished and bestselling young adult authors comes a breathtaking novel of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness—one that’s both tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity.