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A very large expanse of the sea6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() By the afternoon, though, Shirin is with her older brother and his friends, learning how to breakdance.īreakdancing is Shirin’s passion. They can’t be bothered to get to know her, so why should she try?Īt her new school, Shirin spends her mornings with headphones in her ears, drowning out her frustrations with the teachers and classmates, trying to be as invisible as possible. She’s given up on trying to befriend people or fit in ’cause what’s the point? All anyone ever sees is her race and religion. She’s sick of the name-calling, the rude stares, and most of all, the physical violence she has to endure on a day to day basis because she wears a hijab.Īs her family has moved from place to place over the years, Shirin has learned not to trust anyone. It’s 2002, and 16-year-old Shirin (pronounced She-Reen-gorgeous name) is sick of being stereotyped. Strangers would scream at me in the street, at school, in the grocery store to go home” (159). ![]() ![]() People I’d never met were suddenly accusing me of murder. “It didn’t matter that I was just as shaken and horrified as everyone else no one believed my grief. A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi is a YA Romance inspired by the author’s own experiences with breakdancing, love, and the prejudices she faced as a Muslim woman after 9/11. ![]()
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