![]() ![]() On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother’s death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied.īut there are things that Melati can’t protect her mother from. Melati Ahmad looks like your typical moviegoing, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. ![]() Her book, THE WEIGHT OF OUR SKY, is out today from Salaam Reads.Ī music-loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut. Please welcome Malaysian storyteller, Hanna Alkaf, to Rich in Color. ![]()
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