American Fever, Dur e Aziz Amna
American Fever, Dur e Aziz Amna
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American Fever
A Novel

Author: Dur e Aziz Amna

Narrator: Monica Sagar

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/20/2022

Synopsis

On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, a Pakistani student, sixteen-year-old Hira, must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and try to understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established home away from home upside down.

American Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna.

About Dur e Aziz Amna

Dur e Aziz Amna grew up in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and now lives in New Jersey, USA. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Longreads, among others. She won the 2019 Financial Times Bodley Head Essay Prize with an e-book publication, and was longlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2020. She graduated from Yale College and the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. American Fever is her debut novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zoya on March 06, 2023

I received an ARC of American Fever on NetGalley courtesy of Dure herself, in exchange for a review. I will keep my thoughts brief for now (as I am working a longer book review): I really enjoyed reading the novel. To say that Dure has a knack for writing beautiful prose is an understatement; she pu......more

Goodreads review by Sabahat on August 21, 2022

So moved by it. So much sharply rendered felt in some vague visceral way but never articulated. So many sentences and passages underlined and filled with marginalia. Perhaps if I had read it a few years ago when I had never left home I would have been irritated by the very premise of this novel: not......more

Goodreads review by Lydia on March 22, 2022

American Fever has earned itself a place on my future syllabi. This book was, by far, one of the most bitingly clear, beautifully written stories I've read in a long time. I've read a lot of criticism about Hira's voice and character, but so much cultural information is being conveyed through her li......more

Goodreads review by akacya ❦ on January 09, 2023

2023 reads: 12/350 2023 tbr: 5/100 hira is an exchange student from pakistan currently living in rural oregon. from having to cook for herself to the cough that doesn’t seem to be going away, she has trouble adjusting to her new environment. one of my reading goals this year was to read more literary f......more

Goodreads review by Korey on June 11, 2022

I received an ARC copy of American Fever through NetGalley. On the surface, this story is about a Pakistani teenager who won an exchange student scholarship, destined for a small town on the Oregon coast. However, this novel takes on deeper topics like Islamophobia, assimilation, and the unexpected r......more

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