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Key ideas from the book
- Shadi’s story unfolds in America in 2003, amid rising hostility toward Muslims.
- The novel places private grief alongside divisions and uncertainty within a local Muslim community.
- Shadi faces the death of her brother, her father’s illness, her mother’s distress, and the loss of her best friend.
- A broken heart adds to Shadi’s sense of loneliness as she tries to keep her troubles to herself.
- The story explores Muslim identity, love, and the struggle to reclaim joy.
About An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi
Set in 2003, several months after the United States declared war on Iraq, Tahereh Mafi’s young adult novel follows Shadi, a Muslim teenager in America who wears a hijab as anti-Muslim hate crimes rise and her local community faces fear and division. While arguments unfold around her about how Muslims should respond, Shadi is absorbed by the troubles in her own life.
Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is struggling, and her best friend has disappeared from her life. Shadi is also dealing with a broken heart, holding her pain in until she can no longer stay silent. The novel brings personal grief and loneliness together with questions of faith, identity, and the right to find joy.
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