Here to Stay

Pretty disappointed by this one. I've liked her other books but the writing was so stilted here. The dialogue was not authentic, many characters felt like caricatures rather than real people, even the main characters were written with only surface traits rather than nuance. The basketball writing (which was about half the book) also felt like an observer rather than a player wrote those sections. The whole thing felt didactic and “problem-novel forced” rather than what should have been a meaningful look at racism and Islamaphobia in a private school.