- Children's fiction, Mental illness, fiction, Riots, fiction, Race relations, fiction
Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. 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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Hanna Alkaf
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Corporation, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781534451926
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