All My Rage
 First edition book cover | |
| Author | Sabaa Tahir |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult |
| Publisher | Razorbill |
Publication date | March 1, 2022 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book |
| Pages | 384 (hardcover) |
All My Rage is a contemporary young adult novel written by Pakistani-American author Sabaa Tahir. It was published on March 1, 2022 by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House.[1] All My Rage is the fifth book written by Tahir and her first standalone book. It explores two high school students struggling to balance family, grief, love, life and a desperate desire to escape a small town that only seems to be suffocating them.
The book was a New York Times and Indie bestseller[2] and was a winner of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award.[3] It also won the 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature,[4] the Michael L. Printz Award,[5] and the 2023 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award from the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE.
Plot
[edit]All My Rage takes place in the Mojave Desert of California and is told from three points of view: Misbah in the past and Noor and Sal in the present. Sal is Misbah's son.
Sal and Noor are former friends growing up in a small desert town. Noor wants to go to college but her guardian will not let her. Sal wants to save his parents' business, a motel, but it is deep in debt. Their friendship rekindles after a tragedy, but Sal's choices, as well as Noor's secrets, threaten to tear them apart. Meanwhile, we learn about Misbah, Sal's mother, and what brought her to America.
Reception
[edit]Anna P. Kambhampaty's review for The New York Times calls All My Rage a "love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don't fit in."[6] According to Kirkus Reviews, the novel "confronts head on the complicated realities of life in a world that is not designed for the oppressed to thrive in."[7]
Jodi Picoult called the book "a gorgeous, star-crossed story about the costs of the American dream."[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir: 9780593202340". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
- ^ "Best Sellers - Books - March 20, 2022". The New York Times.
- ^ "'Ain't Burned All the Bright' by Jason Reynolds, 'All My Rage' by Sabaa Tahir Win 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards". School Library Journal.
- ^ "73rd Annual National Book Awards Ceremony". www.youtube.com. National Book Foundation. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
- ^ "Printz Winner 'All My Rage' Shares Universal Experiences and Message of Hope Youth Media Awards". School Library Journal.
- ^ Kambhampaty, Anna P. (March 1, 2022). "Sabaa Tahir's New Y.A. Novel Poignantly Explores the Meaning of Home". The New York Times.
- ^ "ALL MY RAGE". Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ All My Rage - Sabaa Tahir. BookishFirst. March 2022. ISBN 978-0-593-20234-0.