![]() ![]() Both plots involve explorations of complicated it is for Muslim teens to figure out who they want to be under conflicting religious and cultural expectations. Jesse’s narration chronicles her brush with vandalism and later relationship with a Muslim boy, which forces an air-clearing confrontation between the members of her dysfunctional family. ![]() Alia’s story is a minute-by-minute account of how she and Travis meet up in the north tower and attempt to escape in the chaos as the 101 minutes between the hit and the collapse unfold, readers learn why Travis was in the tower in the first place, a mystery that has plagued Jesse’s family and that Jesse ultimately solves. Jesse, the 2016 narrator, has walked on eggshells since she was a toddler, not wanting to trip the delicate balance of her mother’s tears and her father’s rage that have engulfed her family since her brother Travis was killed in the attack. Alia is a Muslim girl arguing with her parents, which ultimately leads her to the North Tower to talk to her father on that fateful morning in 2001. ![]() The two sixteen-year-old narrators of this book are separated by the fifteen years between 9/11 and the present day. ![]()
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