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Love, Hate & Other Filters

by Samira Ahmed

"Maya dreams in film scenes. America keeps recasting her as a suspect."

Aspiring filmmaker Maya Aziz is juggling two possible futures — dutiful daughter or NYU film student — when a terrorist attack hundreds of miles away turns her Illinois town's suspicion onto its Muslim families. Sharp, warm debut about Islamophobia, ambition and the right to an ordinary teenage life.

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An instant New York Times bestseller.

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