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Watched | Marina Budhos
6 posts | 5 read | 7 to read
Marina Budhos’s extraordinary and timely novel examines what it’s like to grow up under surveillance, something many Americans experience and most Muslim Americans know. Naeem is far from the “model teen.” Moving fast in his immigrant neighborhood in Queens is the only way he can outrun the eyes of his hardworking Bangladeshi parents and their gossipy neighbors. Even worse, they’re not the only ones watching. Cameras on poles. Mosques infiltrated. Everyone knows: Be careful what you say and who you say it to. Anyone might be a watcher. Naeem thinks he can charm his way through anything, until his mistakes catch up with him and the cops offer a dark deal. Naeem sees a way to be a hero—a protector—like the guys in his brother’s comic books. Yet what is a hero? What is a traitor? And where does Naeem belong? Acclaimed author Marina Budhos delivers a riveting story that’s as vivid and involving as today’s headlines.
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Fancypants
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Mehso-so

What's right and what's wrong? It's hard to tell in this book.

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night_shift
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Mehso-so

It started out so strong and I was so concerned for Naeem, which got me thinking about situations real people have to deal with along this vein, but the climax I sort of saw coming and it just fizzled from there.. a sorta frustrating deus ex machina ending.

#youngadult #contemporary #borrowed

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night_shift
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Feeling really anxious for Naeem. It's hard to see him not get the situation is all wrong :/

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Bookish_penguin
Watched | Marina Budhos

But when the bedroom door clicks shit, they switch on computers. Their fingers click. A magic door whooshes open. They are someone else. They wear armor, swishers their eyes with kohl, wield swords. They are invincible.

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ReadingRants
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MrBook Sounds intriguing! 8y
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bookwormmichelle
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Intense and timely story of a Muslim teen trying to make his way in NYC in the midst of surveillance programs