Ask Me No Questions
$26.27
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2007
Summary
A Muslim immigrant teen struggles to hold her family together in the wake of 9⁄11 in this poignant novel from acclaimed author Marina Budhos.
You forget. You forget you don’t really exist here, that this isn’t your home.
Since emigrating from Bangladesh, fourteen-year-old Nadira and her family have been living in New York City on expired visas, hoping to realize their dream of becoming legal US citizens. But after 9⁄11, everything changes. Suddenly be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416949206 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1416949208 |
| Author: | Marina Budhos |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 175g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 13mm |
| Audience Age: | 12 |
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Critics Review
“A thoughtful, riveting tale of post-9⁄11 America…Beautifully written.”– Chitra Divakaruni, author ofQueen of Dreams
“A thoughtful, riveting tale of post-9⁄11 America…Beautifully written.”
– Chitra Divakaruni, author of “Queen of Dreams”
About The Author
Marina Budhos
Marina Budhos is an author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction. Her novel Watched received an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature YA Honor and a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor. Her other novels include Tell Us We’re Home, a 2017 Essex County YA Pick; Ask Me No Questions, a recipient of the James Cook Teen Book Award; The Professor of Light; House of Waiting; and the nonfiction book Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers.
With her husband Marc Aronson, she is the coauthor of Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism and Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science, a 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist.
Budhos has been a Fulbright Scholar to India, received two Fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and is a professor of English at William Paterson University.
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