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All My Rage
First edition book cover
AuthorSabaa Tahir
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung adult
PublisherRazorbill
Publication date
March 1, 2022
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
Pages384 (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.[6]

Plot

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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

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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."[7] 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."[8]

Jodi Picoult called the book "a gorgeous, star-crossed story about the costs of the American dream."[9]

References

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  1. ^ "All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir: 9780593202340". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  2. ^ "Best Sellers - Books - March 20, 2022". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "'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.
  4. ^ "73rd Annual National Book Awards Ceremony". www.youtube.com. National Book Foundation. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  5. ^ "Printz Winner 'All My Rage' Shares Universal Experiences and Message of Hope Youth Media Awards". School Library Journal.
  6. ^ "The Walden Award". ALAN. 2021-07-30. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  7. ^ Kambhampaty, Anna P. (March 1, 2022). "Sabaa Tahir's New Y.A. Novel Poignantly Explores the Meaning of Home". The New York Times.
  8. ^ "ALL MY RAGE". Kirkus Reviews.
  9. ^ All My Rage - Sabaa Tahir. BookishFirst. March 2022. ISBN 978-0-593-20234-0.