Melati suffers from OCD but due to the lack of understanding about mental health in those days, it manifests as a Djinn inside her who threatens death to all the people she loves unless she carries out the rituals.
There are many reasons why this book moved me but let’s start with Melati and the Djinn inside of her. Stranded in a suddenly hostile city, Melati has to depend on people that she doesn’t know if she can trust to find her way back to her mother. The entire cinema is divided by race and the Malays are killed Melati is only saved due to the intervention of a kind Chinese auntie. Melati and her best friend, Saf, are at the cinema when the riots start. The Weight of Our Sky is set during the racial riots. It is amazing and it tackles the sensitive topic of race and a difficult time in Malaysia’s history with great skill and empathy. Click for hi res versions.I cannot remember how I found this book, which is sad because I LOVED THIS. PLEASE SEE: A NOTE ON NAMES ***** HEADSHOTS Her upcoming projects include the MG fantasy adventure HAMRA & THE JUNGLE OF MEMORIES (HarperCollins, March 28th 2023) and the YA magic school murder mystery anthology THE GRIMOIRE OF GRAVE FATES (Delacorte Press, June 6th 2023). She lives in Kuala Lumpur with her family. Hanna now spends her time making it up as she goes along, both as an author of fiction and as a mom. Her articles have appeared in the Malaysian iterations of Marie Claire, Shape, and Esquire, as well as a host of other media both print and online. She’s been a senior writer at Marie Claire Malaysia, the communications manager of education non-profit Teach For Malaysia, and a freelance journalist. She worked in Chicago as an online copywriter for several years upon graduation before coming home to be with her family. She graduated with a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and spent over ten years writing everything from B2B marketing emails to investigative feature articles, from non-profit press releases to corporate brochures. Hanna Alkaf is the author of the Freeman Award-winning THE WEIGHT OF OUR SKY (Salaam Reads/Simon & Schuster), the Kirkus Prize finalist THE GIRL AND THE GHOST (HarperCollins), and the Scrabble murder mystery QUEEN OF THE TILES (Salaam Reads/Simon & Schuster). Hanna lives in Kuala Lumpur with her family. Her next books are the MG fantasy adventure HAMRA & THE JUNGLE OF MEMORIES (HarperCollins, March 28th 2023) and the YA magic school murder mystery anthology THE GRIMOIRE OF GRAVE FATES (Delacorte Press, June 6th 2023). She graduated with a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and spent over ten years in journalism and communications before trading in nonfiction for fiction. Hanna Alkaf is the critically acclaimed author of the Freeman Award winner THE WEIGHT OF OUR SKY, the Kirkus Prize finalist THE GIRL AND THE GHOST, and QUEEN OF THE TILES.
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