Men have taken inspiration from women throughout history, claiming them, more often than not, as their own-as will become clear to Khayyam in her search for Leila. Across time, these two women’s stories intertwine as Khayyam fights to find Leila’s voice and separate it from what men have made her out to be.Īhmed (Love, Hate & Other Filters, 2019) has brought to the forefront the idea that saying “behind every great man, there’s a great woman” is no longer the way forward. Leila, a harem girl, is struggling to survive while keeping her love for another man hidden from her Pasha-who has “gifted” her his favor, for now. Khayyam starts to connect with an enigmatic 19 th-century Muslim woman, whose path may have intersected with Dumas, Delacroix and Lord Byron. Khayyam and Alexander hunt for what they believe to be a missing Delacroix painting that the artist may have gifted to Alexander Dumas. Just when everything feels exceptionally crappy, and Khayyam literally steps in crap, she meets Alexander, the descendant of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas. On top of that, her maybe ex-boyfriend, Zaid, is ghosting her. Her essay to her dream school, The Art Institute of Chicago, wasn’t received well by the committee, derailing her chances of getting in. Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed (Soho Teen 2020)ġ7-year-old Khayyam Maquet-American, French, Indian, Muslim-is spending her August sulking around Paris.
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