Mad, Bad  Dangerous to Know, Samira Ahmed
Mad, Bad  Dangerous to Know, Samira Ahmed
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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Author: Samira Ahmed

Narrator: Soneela Nankani, Leila Buck

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/07/2020


Synopsis

Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling

author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape

the pressure of cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.

It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet—American, French, Indian, Muslim—is at a crossroads.

This holiday with her parents should be a dream trip for the budding art historian. But her maybe-exboyfriend is probably ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college,

and now all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life instead of brooding in

the City of Light.

Two hundred years before Khayyam’s summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her

true love hidden from the Pasha who has “gifted” her with favored status in his harem. In the present day—and

with the company of a descendant of Alexandre Dumas—Khayyam begins to connect allusions to an enigmatic

19th-century Muslim woman whose path may have intersected with Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Delacroix, and

Lord Byron.

Echoing across centuries, Leila and Khayyam’s lives intertwine, and as one woman’s long-forgotten life is

uncovered, another’s is transformed.

Author Bio

Samira Ahmed is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of young adult novels: Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, Hollow Fires, as well as the middle grade fantasy adventure series Amira & Hamza. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in anthologies including: Take the Mic, Color Outside the Lines, Ink Knows No Borders, Vampires Never Get Old, and A Universe of Wishes.

She was born in Bombay, India, and grew up in Batavia, Illinois, in a house that smelled like fried onions, spices, and potpourri. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Samira has taught high school English in both the suburbs of Chicago and New York City, worked in education non-profits, and spent time on the road for political campaigns.

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