She’s appeared in the New York Times, New York Daily News, Fox News, NBC, NY1, NPR, and on BBC Radio. A graduate of the University of Chicago, she taught high school English for seven years, worked to create over 70 small high schools in New York City, and fought to secure billions of additional dollars to fairly fund public schools throughout New York State. She’s lived in New York City and Kauai, where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango.
Samira Ahmed was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois, in a house that smelled like fried onions, spices, and potpourri. This fabulous debut will be out on January 16, 2018, and I cannot say enough good things about it. Ultimately, Maya must find the strength within to determine where she truly belongs.Today I have the very great pleasure of introducing a friend and INCREDIBLE author, Samira Ahmed.I just got my hands on an ARC of LOVE, HATE AND OTHER FILTERS, and y’all. The community she’s known since birth becomes unrecognizable neighbors and classmates alike are consumed with fear, bigotry, and hatred. In the aftermath of a horrific crime perpetrated hundreds of miles away, her life is turned upside down. There’s also the real world, beyond Maya’s control.
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 her mom deems “suitable.” 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 since grade school, a boy who’s finally falling into her orbit at school. In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape.Īmerican-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds.
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