23 May / Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos [in Christian Science Monitor]
A Bangladeshi immigrant family heads to Canada in search of asylum. When the father is inexplicably arrested at the border, the two daughters return alone to New York, where friends and family are disappearing without explanation. Budhos hauntingly depicts a post-9/11 world where looking like the enemy can seem a crime.
Reviews: “In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, some new and notable books,” Christian Science Monitor, May 23, 2006
“TBR‘s Contributing Editors’ Favorite Reads of 2006: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things … in Print, That Is …,” The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2006
Readers: Middle School, Young Adult
Published: 2006
By in Bangladeshi American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers
Tags > Ask Me No Questions, Assimilation, Bloomsbury Review, BookDragon, Christian Science Monitor, Civil rights, Coming-of-age, Family, Girl power, Identity, Immigration, Marina Budhos, Siblings