{"id":946,"date":"2021-10-07T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/?p=946"},"modified":"2021-12-06T22:13:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T22:13:13","slug":"zara-hossain-is-here-by-sabrina-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Zara Hossain is Here by Sabrina Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Book review by Elizabeth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I\u2019ve realized that at this point I might be more drawn to books that are more based in realism, and this one is no exception. Whether I\u2019m going to continue this trend or not is a mystery, though I\u2019ve certainly preferred the likes of this book about the harsh reality for people of colour and immigrants, than the book that continued one boring scene for an entire twenty pages, and uses phrases such as \u201cthe male species\u201d, which is all too good at making me gag (Prom Theory ,<\/em>I\u2019m looking at you). Even though this book may not be for the faint of heart, I doubt it\u2019ll be a boring read for anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zara Hossain is Here <\/em>by Sabrina Khan is a novel about a seventeen-year-old Pakistani girl Zara Hossain living in Corpus Christi, Texas. She moved to the US when she was three with her parents via her father\u2019s work visa, who sponsored them to get their green cards. There aren\u2019t many Pakistani nor Muslim people where Zara and her family lived however they were fortunate enough to have a handful of very close friends. As I\u2019ve suggested, not everyone was friendly at all to Zara, as she\u2019s had to deal with racist remarks and subtle gestures far too many times for comfort from ignorant people and classmates who saw her as unequal. For now Zara had been able to push through it all though, even joining an activism club in her school to raise awareness for people less fortunate than her. After saving a girl from one of her private catholic school\u2019s racist bullies, Zara finds herself the target of Isamiphobic graffiti on her school locker as well as her own house which ends up putting her family in grave danger of losing their right to stay in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared to some of my dramatically failed reads (still looking at you Prom Theory<\/em>), I think this book is amazing. I love stories with real and believable characters and scenarios that are hard to pick apart, yet still wild enough to leave the reader in suspense. I\u2019m glad I read this book. It wasn\u2019t as great as Watch Over Me <\/em>by Nina Lacour but definitely one of my top book picks this summer. I think I would recommend this book if fantasy leaves you unamused, like me, and even more so if you have found yourself reading something as mind numbing as Prom Theory<\/em> by Ann Labar. You\u2019ll really find yourself attached to the characters and as odd as it is, find comfort in this book.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book review by Elizabeth I\u2019ve realized that at this point I might be more drawn to books that are more based in realism, and this one is no exception. Whether I\u2019m going to continue this trend or not is a mystery, though I\u2019ve certainly preferred the likes of this book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fepl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}