Love, Hate & Other Filters

Name: Love, Hate & Other Filters
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Samira Ahmed
ISBN: 9781501979392

Author: Samira Ahmed

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/16/2018

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Diversity & Multicultural, Religious Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance

Synopsis

In this unforgettable debut, a Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There's the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home, and being paired off with an older Muslim boy who's "suitable" to her mother. And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school and living in New York City-and maybe, just maybe, pursuing a boy she's known from afar her entire life who's suddenly falling into her orbit at school. But unbeknownst to Maya, there is a danger looming beyond her control. When a terrorist attack occurs in another Midwestern city, the prime suspect happens to share her last name. In an instant, Maya's community, consumed by fear and hatred, becomes unrecognizable, and her life changes forever.

About Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of young adult novels: Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, Hollow Fires, as well as the middle grade fantasy adventure series Amira & Hamza. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in anthologies including: Take the Mic, Color Outside the Lines, Ink Knows No Borders, Vampires Never Get Old, and A Universe of Wishes.

She was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois, in a house that smelled like fried onions, spices, and potpourri. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Samira has taught high school English in both the suburbs of Chicago and New York City, worked in education non-profits, and spent time on the road for political campaigns.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fuzaila on April 23, 2021

UPDATE 18/2/18 - I see many of you chanced upon this book looking for a good Muslim rep. I did too. But this book was far from it. I have added some recommendations at the end of the review for those who are looking for good Muslim reps. BELIEVE ME, this is not the book you're looking for. ●◇●◇●◇●◇●......more

Goodreads review by jv on August 18, 2022

First and foremost, this book is exquisitely authored. Beautiful, not in a flowery, colorful sort of way; but rather in a raw, natural, simple-yet-stunning kind of way. And so, a snap-shot of Maya’s senior year: dating, spring break, planning for college…as an Indian Muslim American…would be wholly......more

Goodreads review by emma on June 22, 2021

Greetings, parallel dimension. Hello, population of an almost identical but ever so slightly eerie and incorrect existence. To the uncanny valley: salutations. This book is so persistently and unrelentingly off, so inexplicable in its emotional choices or lack thereof, that I have no choice but to be......more

Goodreads review by Korrina on January 28, 2018

Gosh, I don’t know where to begin. I already know this book will be on my top books of 2018. I feel like this is one of those books that has changed how I see the world a little bit. That taught me things. I fell in love with Maya’s character immediately. I wanted to be her best friend. I wanted to s......more

Goodreads review by Laura on February 01, 2018

I so wanted to love Love, Hate & Other Filters and I do see the importance in the story. I only wish it wasn't filled with all the extra fluff and insta-love that only distracts from the actual topics at hand. And I was excited to see an Indian-American Muslim teen as the star of the story, but was......more