We Are All We Have, Marina Budhos
We Are All We Have, Marina Budhos
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We Are All We Have

Author: Marina Budhos

Narrator: Farah Merani

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2022

Synopsis

When a teenage girl’s single mom is taken by ICE, everything changes—all of her hopes and dreams for the future have turned into survival.

Seventeen-year-old Rania is shaken awake in her family's apartment in Brooklyn. ICE is at the door, taking her mother away. But Ammi has
This was supposed to be Rania’s greatest summer: hanging out with her best friend, Fatima, and getting ready for college in the fall.

But it’s 2019, and nothing is certain.

Now, along with her younger brother, Kamal, and a new friend, Carlos, Rania must figure out how to survive. A road trip leads to searching for answers to questions she didn’t even think to ask.

In this vivid exploration of what happens when the country you have put your hopes into is fast shutting down, award-winning author Marina Budhos shows us how one girl bursting with dreams navigates secrets, love, and the lure of the open road.

About The Author

MARINA BUDHOS is the author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction. Her novels for young people are The Long Ride, Watched, Tell Us We’re Home, and Ask Me No Questions. Her nonfiction books are Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers and two coauthored books, Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro & the Invention of Modern Photojournalism and Sugar Changed the World, written with her husband, Marc Aronson. Budhos has received an NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing and has been a Fulbright Scholar to India and was a professor of English at William Paterson University. Visit her online at marinabudhos.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon on April 11, 2023

This was a tender and extremely moving YA romance between Rania and Carlos, two undocumented teens sent to a detention camp by ICE officials. When they break out and embark on a summer road trip, they can't help falling in love as they avoid the harsh realities of their life as unwelcome, unofficial......more

Goodreads review by Emily on July 13, 2022

I'm so lucky to be able to read this manuscript pre-release; but what an adventure!! I absolutely fell in love with all the characters!......more

Goodreads review by Sheena on October 28, 2022

Short and concise, very straight to the story and point of it which I appreciate. Sad and important - Felt very realistic. Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book!......more

Goodreads review by Kirin on October 06, 2022

In many ways this book reads like a reboot of the author's 2007 book Ask Me No Questions, there are sprinkled in references to Islamic culture, but nothing about the characters or the author truly show the book to be a Muslim story, or Islam centered.   Much like Ask Me No Questions, the book is tol......more

Goodreads review by Kayleigh on February 19, 2025

This is a book that's really going to stick with me. It follows Rania, a 17-year-old Pakistani-American girl who is just about to graduate high school and begin the free life of her dream--college, working at a bookstore, when suddenly her mother is detained by ICE. Now she's left to care for her yo......more

Quotes

★ "A triumphant tale about finding home." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

★ "Budhos weaves a rich tapestry of words that navigates a yearning for acceptance, love, and the unerring need for freedom." —Booklist, starred review

"The tightly wound plot creates an underlying tension as the young characters’ situations constantly unravel." —The Horn Book

"[A] hopeful tale with a large cast of kind-hearted characters, whose boundless compassion for Rania and Kamal, and sense of helplessness in the face of an unfair and impossible government system, is palpable." —Publishers Weekly

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