Monster Child
Author | : Rahela Nayebzadah |
Publisher | : Wolsak and Wynn |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 198949630X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781989496305 |
Rating | : 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In a powerful debut novel author Rahela Nayebzadah introduces three unforgettable characters, Beh, Shabnam and Alif. In a world swirling with secrets, racism and a touch of magic we watch through the eyes of these three children as Nayebzadah's family of Afghan immigrants try to find their way in an often uncaring society. But as a sexual assault on thirteen-year-old Beh unleashes the past and destroys the family the reader is left wondering who is the monster child? Is it Beh, who says she is called a disease? Is it Shabnam, who cries tears of blood? Is it Alif, who in the end declares We are a family of monsters? Or are the monsters all around us?