Tahereh Mafi Books

Shirin’s story begins one year after the September 11 attacks—a time when fear was reshaping every public space and suspicion had become effortless. She is sixteen years old, Muslim, wears hijab, and carries the weight of a world that sees her as a villain before she speaks. Every day, she endures i...

From A Very Large Expanse of Sea

When the world around you insists that you do not belong, control becomes the rarest form of freedom. For Shirin, breakdancing offers that liberation. The rhythm, the discipline, the creative defiance—it all becomes a form of resistance against invisibility. Breakdancing is not just her hobby; it’s ...

From A Very Large Expanse of Sea

The story opens on the aftermath of devastation. Juliette regains consciousness in an unfamiliar environment, her thoughts fragmented, her sense of self dissolved into static. The memories she had clung to—those of rebellion, of friendship, of love—are missing, replaced by sensations she can’t name....

From Defy Me

While Juliette sleeps in confusion, Warner wanders through his own storm of memory. He has lost her abruptly, and with her disappearance came the echo of another loss—his sanity fractured by revelations his father left behind. Warner’s narrative in *Defy Me* is desperate and introspective; he moves ...

From Defy Me

Juliette’s return from the brink of death is not gentle. When she awakens after being shot, she finds herself in Warner’s care, the very man she believed to be her enemy. This opening is deliberately intimate, forcing her—and the reader—to confront contradiction. Warner, cold and calculating in her ...

From Ignite Me

When Juliette reconnects with the survivors of Omega Point, particularly her friend Kenji, she confronts the emotional wreckage of the war. Kenji’s humor still lights the darkest spaces, but his exhaustion exposes the rebellion’s fragility. The rebels are fractured, demoralized, and leaderless. This...

From Ignite Me