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Mad, bad & dangerous to know / Samira Ahmed.
August in Paris. This holiday with her professor parents should be a dream trip for budding art historian Khayyam Maquet-- American, French, Indian, Muslim. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life. Two hundred years before Khayyam's 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. Two lives: one to be uncovered; the other transformed.
Record details
- ISBN: 1616959894
- ISBN: 9781616959890
- Physical Description: 327 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Soho Teen, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 21.99 |
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| Subject: | Art > History > Fiction. Muslims > Fiction. Racially mixed people > Fiction. Americans > France > Fiction. Paris (France) > Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | YA Ahmed | 31681020138350 | YADULT | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The best-selling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters presents the alternating narratives of two young women, centuries apart, who fight to tell their own stories while escaping the pressure of familial burdens and patriarchal cultural expectations. Simultaneous eBook. - Baker & Taylor
In Paris, seventeen-year-old Khayyam, a part-Indian, part-French Muslim American, is at a crossroads when a chance encounter plunges her into research about Leila, a girl much like Khayyam who inspired Eugáene Delacroix. - Random House, Inc.
Discover New York Times bestseller Samira Ahmedâs 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.
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Itâs August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam MaquetâAmerican, French, Indian, Muslimâis 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 Khayyamâs summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her true love hidden from the Pasha who has âgiftedâ her with favored status in his harem. In the present dayâand with the company of Alex, a très charmant teen descendant of Alexandre DumasâKhayyam searches for a rumored lost painting, uncovering a connection between Leila and Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Delacroix, and Lord Byron that may have been erased from history.
Echoing across centuries, Leila and Khayyamâs lives intertwine, and as one womanâs long-forgotten life is uncovered, anotherâs is transformed.
