About the Book: That Thing We Call a Heart
Shabnam Qureshi is a funny, imaginative Pakistani-American teen attending a
tony private school in suburban New Jersey. When her feisty best friend, Farah,
starts wearing the headscarf without even consulting her, it begins to unravel
their friendship. After hooking up with the most racist boy in school and
telling a huge lie about a tragedy that happened to her family during the
Partition of India in 1947, Shabnam is ready for high school to end. She faces a
summer of boredom and regret, but she has a plan: Get through the summer. Get to
college. Dont look