American Fever - The sharp spiky debut novel from winner of Financial Times Essay

A deeply compelling and funny coming-of-age novel about a teenaged girl's life-changing journey from Pakistan to America, and the challenges of a debilitating illness.

About the author

Dur e Aziz Amna is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program, where drafts of AMERICAN FEVER won the Hopwood and Busch Prizes. She won the Bodley Head / Financial Times Essay Prize and the London Magazine Short Story Competition and has been longlisted for the prestigious Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Her writing has been featured or shortlisted elsewhere, including the New York Times, Longreads, Roads & Kingdoms, and Dawn. She lives in Ann Arbor with her husband and children.

Summary

A deeply compelling and funny coming-of-age novel about a teenaged girl's life-changing journey from Pakistan to America, and the challenges of a debilitating illness.

Foreword

A deeply compelling and funny coming-of-age novel about a teenaged girl's life-changing journey from Pakistan to America, and the challenges of a debilitating illness.

Product details

• Authors: Dur e Aziz Amna, Dur e Aziz Amna
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781529393354
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-9335-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Asian American, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Consumed; Oregon; Pakistan; Tuberculosis