![]() ![]() Maya realizes that she must fight for her dreams. When their office is vandalized and Maya gets beaten up for being Muslim, they want her to stay at home and commute to a local college. ![]() They change their minds, however, following a terrorist attack in Springfield. Though the news upsets Asif and Sofia, they eventually agree to let her go. After receiving acceptance into NYU, she struggles to tell her parents. ![]() She secretly applied to New York University to study film. Though her parents want her to study law or medicine at the University of Chicago, Maya aspires to be a filmmaker. Each chapter ends with a short, third-person narrative about Ethan Branson, an American teenager who blows up a federal building in Springfield, Illinois-an intentional allusion to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. As the book’s narrator and main protagonist, Maya relates her story with wisdom, sarcasm, and teenage angst. Maya is the daughter of Asif and Sofia, Muslim Indians who came to the United States from Hyderabad before she was born. ![]()
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