![]() ![]() The Chinese and Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother become separated by a city in flames. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother’s death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied.īut there are things that Melati can’t protect her mother from. Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. A Children’s Book Council Notable Social Studies Book for 2020Ī music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut. ![]() Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year selection 2020.YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2020.Winner, 2019 Freeman Awards, Young Adult/High School Literature. ![]()
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