The ending of the story– no spoilers– really moved me, too. Also, I loved that she faced her anger, even when it was messy. I think one of the most brilliant things about the book, besides its beautiful characters, is that the balance between rage and vulnerability is perfectly executed. That only happens when I’m really invested in a book, though, so I feel like that’s clear evidence that ALL MY RAGE really hooked me.

I’m like, this is a terrible idea, please do not do the thing you’re doing. Stop!” Yeah, I definitely had that moment in this book. You know when you see a character doing something, and you’re like, “No. I felt like I was still reeling from that when another thing happened. I mean, I wondered what the deal was with certain things, but didn’t know for sure that there was necessarily going to be more of an explanation. There’s one part, maybe roughly three quarters of the way through the book, where the story drops several big bombshells that I wasn’t prepared for. Late in the book I realized how things connected and reading her point-of-view made a lot more sense then. But those sections continue into the present part of the story, too. She begins in the long past and gives some context to some of Sal’s past and explains her husband’s alcoholism. It took me longer to understand why Misbah’s point of view was part of the story. Because, oh my gosh, the things Noor and Salahudin go through and have been through. Well, if I thought Sabaa Tahir was going to go easier on her characters in a contemporary novel(versus fantasy), I was very much mistaken. 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.įrom 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. 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. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends they are family. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. Published MaAmazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About All My Rage

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