Teenagers face a great deal of growing pains when it comes to family, relationships, and their future life ahead. Love, Hate, and Other Filters, written by Samira Ahmed, tells the story of a young American-Indian-Muslim woman, named Maya who goes through the trials of growing up in the Midwest with traditional parents and new American values. Maya with traditional parents and new American values. Maya grows up in a very strict household often not being able to uphold her parents expectations, when all she wants to do is be a normal American teenage girl. She really just wants to hangout with friends, film everything she can, and date the boy of her dreams. All while experiencing many instances of islamophobia all demonstrated by one boy at school. While reading this book the thing that surprised me the most was definitely just how strict her parents were. Maya had really wanted to go to NYU for film school and she ended up having to choose between her dream or her parents, ultimately she pursued her dream and her parents disowned her. This was somewhat hard for me to understand because something that Maya should have determined was so easily willing to be thrown away by her parents. Although the tense plot with Maya’s parents, my favorite part about the book was the way in which it was told. It was given this sort of modern feel. I loved how the author incorporated various text messages, emojis, new reports, and stories to add to the overall style of the book. After this book I definitely learned more about the reality of minorities living in the United States. I had known before of their struggle but this helped me understand it from someone around my age's point of view. Samira Ahmed does a wonderful job of portraying the story of a young girl trying to find herself amid all the chaos of growing up in a small American town. I like how she brought light to things that teenagers had never thought of or understood until after reading. “Even if we lived in India, I would still be who I am and want what I want. Geography wouldn't have changed that.” by Amelia D.
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