Description:High school has ended, and Shabnam Qureshi is facing a summer of loneliness and boredom. She’s felt alienated from her gutsy best friend, Farah, ever since Farah started wearing the Muslim head scarf—without even bothering to discuss it with Shabnam first. But no one else comes close to understanding her, especially not her parents.All Shabnam wants to do is get through the summer. Get to Penn. Begin anew. Not look back.That is, until she meets Jamie, who scores her a job at his aunt’s pie shack and meets her there every afternoon.Shabnam sees Jamie and herself like the rose and the nightingale of classic Urdu poetry, which, according to her father, is the ultimate language of desire. Jamie finds Shabnam fascinating—her curls, her culture, even her awkwardness. Shabnam quickly finds herself in love, while Farah, who Shabnam has begun to reconnect with, finds Jamie worrying.In her quest to figure out who she really is and what she really wants, Shabnam looks for help in an unexpected place—her family.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with That Thing We Call a Heart: A Funny Coming-of-Age Story About Love, Friends, and Urdu Poetry. To get started finding That Thing We Call a Heart: A Funny Coming-of-Age Story About Love, Friends, and Urdu Poetry, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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That Thing We Call a Heart: A Funny Coming-of-Age Story About Love, Friends, and Urdu Poetry
Description: High school has ended, and Shabnam Qureshi is facing a summer of loneliness and boredom. She’s felt alienated from her gutsy best friend, Farah, ever since Farah started wearing the Muslim head scarf—without even bothering to discuss it with Shabnam first. But no one else comes close to understanding her, especially not her parents.All Shabnam wants to do is get through the summer. Get to Penn. Begin anew. Not look back.That is, until she meets Jamie, who scores her a job at his aunt’s pie shack and meets her there every afternoon.Shabnam sees Jamie and herself like the rose and the nightingale of classic Urdu poetry, which, according to her father, is the ultimate language of desire. Jamie finds Shabnam fascinating—her curls, her culture, even her awkwardness. Shabnam quickly finds herself in love, while Farah, who Shabnam has begun to reconnect with, finds Jamie worrying.In her quest to figure out who she really is and what she really wants, Shabnam looks for help in an unexpected place—her family.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with That Thing We Call a Heart: A Funny Coming-of-Age Story About Love, Friends, and Urdu Poetry. To get started finding That Thing We Call a Heart: A Funny Coming-of-Age Story About Love, Friends, and Urdu Poetry, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.