Author: Hanna Alkaf
Publication Date: 5th February 2019 by Salaam Reads
Format: Ebook via Scribd
Target Audience: Young Adult
Genre: Historical
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Synopsis
Melati Ahmad looks like
your typical moviegoing, 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.
But there are things that Melati can't protect her mother from. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother become separated by a city in flames.
With a 24-hour curfew in place and all lines of communication down, it will take the help of a Chinese boy named Vincent and all of the courage and grit in Melati’s arsenal to overcome the violence on the streets, her own prejudices, and her djinn’s surging power to make it back to the one person she can’t risk losing.
Trigger and content warnings: OCD, anxiety, graphic violence, on page death, and strong racism.
