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Depicts the joys and hardships experienced by a Muslim family that immigrates to New York City from Alexandria, Egypt, in the hope of making a better life for themselves.

A memoir of the author's life growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a dissatisfied mother and distant father, college years in America, failed marriage, and attempts to come to terms with love, freedom, and self-acceptance.

". . . unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding--a match of love rather than tradition.

Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Muslim immigrants.

Sadiq's father is going on a business trip, but before he goes he tells Sadiq a story of the Desert Star, which fits in perfectly with Sadiq's third grade class field trip to the planetarium, and inspires Sadiq to build a simple telescope to study the stars when his father returns.

"Sadiq's third grade class decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms.

"Even though it is summer, Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr.

"Eight-year-old Sadiq wants to try out for the youth football team like his friends, but his parents feel he is too young, and instead suggest that he take up running and join the track club--Sadiq feels that running is wimpy, but the coach convinces him that running races can be fun as well"--Provided by publisher.

Izzy struggles with her parents' separation, starting middle school, and more, but especially the effect her friendship with her Muslim neighbor, Sitara, has on her best friends, Zelda and Piper.

"A young Somali American and his classmates design a model city to withstand floods, using river walls, floodgates, gutters, and rain gardens"--Provided by publisher.

"After a family hike in a nearby park, Sadiq forms the Explorers Club with his friends, who then help a neighbor create a nature-themed scavenger hunt for the Fourth of July celebration"--Provided by publisher.

"When Sadiq and his friends form a theater club Sadiq, as director, thinks he must do everything until the director of his big sister Aliya's show tells him about delegating.

". . . tells an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made.