Love from A to Z

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Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood; he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. Well, one half of me, because Dad is from Pakistan, which is in South Asia, but then Mom’s family being Guyanese (grandpa) and Trinidadian (grandma) makes her of West Indian background, which is considered to be Caribbean. In an odd twist, when Zayneb tries to swim in pool at her aunt's apartment complex in Doha, a man reports her for wearing a modest non-revealing swimsuit. We pick up his Marvels and Oddities journal on March 7, four years after that Saturday at the Museum of Islamic Art.

I don’t know why, but when she said that, the light went back on inside me, like it had at the door. Love From A to Z is the bighearted, wildly charming, painfully real love story I’ve been waiting for. Around midpoint in the flight, I got up to use the bathroom, and there she was— sitting in the very last row in a single seat, almost right across from the bathroom. The only reason we’ve decided to give Miss Malik a week’s suspension instead —which will go into her records, by the way—is due to her exemplary academic record over the years. But with this news, I’d potentially be getting to Doha on Thursday, when everyone else at school had a week to go before break!Yes, or, to put it more precisely, you can say that it looks like the majority of those countries follow Islam. The brilliant-blue-hijabed girl stopped tapping away on her phone and pulled out her Marvels and Oddities journal, propped it on her carry-on suitcase, and began writing in it without pause, without glancing around, a frown on her face. Jarred’s desk currently holds a working clock made out of an old marble chessboard, with chess pieces for numbers, awaiting another coat of sealant. Then she rolled her eyes and whisper-swore again when I took a long moment to get up from my aisle seat to let her in. After the third time, I found myself singing along to the refrain, asking about the rain out the window as we paused at a stoplight.

There are only a few Muslims at Alexander Porter High, so we’ve gotten into this looking- out-for-each-other thing. two times, the second time in a higher-pitched voice, and I pictured Kavi’s face, dark hair parted at the side, thin brown arms crisscrossed over textbooks affixed to her chest, her lips doing that barely there smile she does. It was like the old and the new and the future joined together in a small explosion, because there was also construction debris here and there that contrasted with the glitzy look of some of the neighborhoods. And Auntie Nandy had taken me in, instead of letting me stew at home, which meant I had to act grateful to her. Yesterday I took the thin pieces of grooved balsa wood and fit them together in a grid pattern inside the box I’d already made.

I’M TALKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS YESTERDAY WITH A STUDENT WHO FELT IT WAS WITHIN HER RIGHT TO THREATEN A TEACHER BECAUSE SHE WAS ENRAGED AT HEARING FACTS. Squish is not a stuffed animal per se but some sort of cross between a puffer fish (round and spotty with bulging eyes and knowing lips), an elephant (longish snout), and a cat (perky ears—well, previously perky, now loved to nubbins). And, in a nod to my previous botched cutlery-drawing attempt, I added a long train of knife and fork emojis to finish off our communication. A character learns that her Pakistani grandmother was killed on her way to a wedding by an American drone strike gone wrong. Eighteen now, Adam is a freshman in college, but it’s important to know that he has stopped going to classes two months ago.

The reality: raise my hand, challenge his BS, get my words twisted, sulk, and, to finish off, pen my anger on a piece of paper. She doesn’t say anything, didn’t say anything to Fencer, and just kept collecting information when she’d been in his class.That’s where my sister, Sadia, goes, and she promised to move out of her dorm so we could get a place together. I guess it’s because oddities are like the nagging parts of life, things that you can sort of escape. Auntie Natasha said instead of moping here, you should spend the next week with her, before Mom joins you guys. That she’d had two classes with him —one in junior year and one first semester of this year—and, somehow, he brought an uncanny number of topics and discussions around to how Islam and Muslims were ruining the world. From that day, he vowed to record the marvels he knew to be true and the oddities he wished weren’t.

Auntie Nandy took her plate to the black leather sofa in the living room adjacent to the dining area.The reality: raise my hand, challenge his BS, get my words twisted, sulk, and, to finish off, pen my anger on a piece of paper. At the luggage carousel, as the belt went around empty, awaiting the luggage, I put my hand in the pocket of my jeans and pulled out the azurite. This unforgettable love story takes on controversial issues like Islamophobia, racism in the classroom, and the morality of drone warfare. After Hateful Woman got into her seat, her actions were executed in staccato, each orchestrated to let me know she was mad at my presence.