Description
Discover New York Times bestseller Samira Ahmeds romantic, sweeping adventure through the streets of Paris told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, continents, and the lives of two young Muslim women fighting to write their own stories.
Smash the patriarchy. Eat all the pastries.
Its August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam MaquetAmerican, French, Indian, Muslimis at a crossroads. This holiday with her parents should be a dream trip for the budding art historian. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and now all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life instead of brooding in the City of Light.
Two hundred years before Khayyams summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her true love hidden from the Pasha who has gifted her with favored status in his harem. In the present dayand with the company of Alex, a tr charmant teen descendant of Alexandre DumasKhayyam searches for a rumored lost painting, uncovering a connection between Leila and Alexandre Dumas, Euge Delacroix, and Lord Byron that may have been erased from history.
Echoing across centuries, Leila and Khayyams lives intertwine, and as one womans long-forgotten life is uncovered, anothers is transformed.
Author: Samira Ahmed
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Soho Teen
Published: 07/06/2021
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781641292313
Language: English
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