An Emotion of Great Delight

From bestselling and National Book Award-nominated authorTahereh Mafi comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating thehyphen of dual identity, and reclaiming your right to joy--even when you'retrapped in the amber of sorrow.

It's 2003, several months since the US officially declaredwar on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Tensions arehigh, hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating localmosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more thanever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down.

She's too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the timeto deal with bigots.

Shadi is named for joy, but she's haunted by sorrow. Herbrother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her bestfriend has mysteriously dropped out of her life. And then, of course, there'sthe small matter of her heart--

It's broken.

Shadi tries to navigate her crumbling world by soldieringthrough, saying nothing. She devours her own pain, each day retreatingfarther and farther inside herself until finally, one day, everythingchanges.

She explodes.

An Emotion of Great Delight is a searing lookinto the world of a single Muslim family in the wake of 9/11. It'sabout a child of immigrants forging a blurry identity, falling in love, and finding hope--in the midst of a modern war.