At the End of the World
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
When the world is ending, what matters most to you?
Seventeen-year-old Aisha hasn't seen her sister June for two years. She has no idea where she is, but that hasn't stopped her from thinking about her every day and hoping she's okay.
But now that a calamity is about to end the world in nine months' time, she and her mother decide that it's time to track her down and mend the hurts of the past. They don't have any time to spare - if they don't resolve their issues now, they never will.
Along with Aisha's boyfriend Walter and his parents (and a stray cat named Fleabag), the group embarks on a roadtrip through Malaysia in a wildly decorated campervan to put the past to rest, to come to terms with the present, and to hope for the future, even with the world about to end.
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Four months ago, teenage Aisha—along with the rest of the world—found out that an asteroid is projected to destroy Earth in less than a year. For the past two years, Aisha has lived alone with her mother in Penang, Malaysia, ever since Aisha's father died and her sister June walked out on them; realizing they have limited time left, Aisha and her mother resolve to find June. Aisha asks her boyfriend and his family to come along, and the group travel together across the country to Melaka with a stray cat named Fleabag. Aisha's despair over her search for June and the oncoming end of the world manifests in increasing anger and irritability, and Walter's seemingly relentlessly positive attitude causes a rift between the teens. The trip provides the families with opportunities to reflect on their lives, strengthen their bonds, admit their most private thoughts, and process their grief. Though revealing flashbacks interwoven throughout occasionally disrupt narrative flow, they also offer vibrant and emotionally raw looks into the protagonists' relationship with loss, the past, and each other. Using poetic prose, debut author Mikail highlights the power of hope and reconciliation amid impending devastation and dread. Ages 13–up.
