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    The Beauty of the Moment
    The Beauty of the Moment
    The Beauty of the Moment
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Beauty of the Moment

    Written by Tanaz Bhathena

    Narrated by Soneela Nankani and Neil Shah

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    About this audiobook

    Susan is the new girl?she's sharp and driven, and strives to meet her parents' expectations of excellence. Malcolm is the bad boy?he started raising hell at age fifteen, after his mom died of cancer, and has had a reputation ever since. Susan's parents are on the verge of divorce. Malcolm's dad is a known adulterer. Susan hasn't told anyone, but she wants to be an artist. Malcolm doesn't know what he wants?until he meets her. Love is messy and families are messier, but in spite of their burdens, Susan and Malcolm fall for each other. The ways they drift apart and come back together are testaments to family, culture, and being true to who you are.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 3, 2019
    ISBN9781980025153
    The Beauty of the Moment
    Author

    Tanaz Bhathena

    Tanaz Bhathena is an award-winning Zoroastrian author of contemporary and fantasy fiction. Her books include Hunted by the Sky, which won the White Pine Award and the Bapsi Sidhwa Literary Prize, and The Beauty of the Moment, which won the Nautilus Gold Award for Young Adult Fiction. Her acclaimed debut, A Girl Like That, was named a Best Book of the Year by numerous outlets including The Globe and Mail, Seventeen, and The Times of India. Born in India and raised in Saudi Arabia and Canada, Tanaz lives in Mississauga, Ontario, with her family.

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    • 4/5
      Totally charming and emotionally satisfying.

      Nothing ground-breaking or amazing is presented, merely an adorable romance with a couple of non-white kids told in alternating points of view. The characterization is solid, the pacing perfect, but the dialogue is weak at times. Overall, the book's strengths outweigh its flaws by a wide margin and I highly recommend it.

      A big fat thank you to MacMillan who kindly sent me a copy of this book for review.
    • 5/5
      An extremely satisfying story. Both Susan and Malcolm could have slid into caricature and make this funny. Instead, they're full of depth, complicated and extremely likable. Supporting players are both realistic and interesting as well. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and plan to read the author's first one soon.
    • 3/5
      Not bad. Good for teenage age range with some familiarity of the culture.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this YA novel. I live near Mississauga so it was neat to read about places I’ve been to in a book. A sweet story with great perspective
    • 5/5
      Susan and Malcolm bring to life a believable high school romance full of dating jitters, first love, family conflicts and pressures. I like that this story was set in Toronto and is relatable for Canadian teenagers. This book will definitely be finding a home in my high school library collection.
    • 4/5
      Susan Thomas and her mother are settling in their new home in Canada while her father finishes up finding a replacement for his medical practice in Jeddah. Both parents want Susan to ace her senior year, and be ready to apply to university in either engineering or the medical field. Susan, however, is an artist, and would like to have more of a say in that decision. The book alternates between her and Malcolm, whose family dysfunction and fracturing has led him to be labeled quite the bad boy. I enjoyed the nod to Bhathena's earlier book--a drawing of Zarin, a former school mate of Susan's back in Jeddah. A Girl Like That really stuck with me and when I realized this was by the same author, I grabbed it at the library right away.
    • 4/5
      Susan Thomas is a South Asian teen who has been deposited in Mississauga Ontario for her final year of high school after spending most of her life in Saudi Arabia. In addition to the universal struggle to fit in at high school, she is also feeling adrift in her own cultural identity; “too Saudi for India and too Indian for Saudi,” and now being forced to buy into her father’s vision of the Canadian dream.

      Like many immigrant children, or children of immigrants, Susan has a lot of pressure on her to succeed, and to succeed by her parents’ narrow definition of what success looks like. This is often delivered via what Susan calls “the brown parent lecture.” Success for certain does not include dating troubled boy Malcolm, and yet together they help each other find the courage to reconcile with their parents, and to stand up for what they want for themselves.

      I’m sure many students will relate to Susan’s situation; struggling to fit in at a new school in a new country, a first (forbidden) boyfriend, mean girls, fighting parents with high expectations, exams, university applications, and more. Many may also appreciate the culturally-diverse characters in the story and how Bhathena weaves real world events, like the Syrian refugee crisis, into the story without ever being didactic.

      I’m going to expose my white privilege here and admit that at first I was discomfited by the use of the name Susan Thomas for a person of Indian heritage. Part of the importance of reading own voices novels is to challenge our own assumptions about race. As Susan says “my name has more to do with my religion than my nationality . . . my name is as Indian as any other.” I’ll remember that.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely love this book. I have always loved romance novels, and this book had the perfect blend of romance and other stuff to make it the perfect novel for me. The fact that it showed the point of view from both people just made it so much better!