saw that ya fantasy rec post, and in your tags you mentioned ya contemporary and mental health... so ya contemporary recs please? 🥺
i got you!
here is a small sample of ya contemporary books that deal with mental health
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram: Darius has never felt like he has belonged in either world - American like his father or Persian like his mother. When a trip to visit his relatives has him confronting cultural stereotypes about mental health, he makes a friendship that will last a lifetime.
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia: Comic creator by night and an anxious student by day, Eliza keeps her lives separate until she learns that the new kid in school shares a similar passion for her comic.
An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahere Mafi: It's 2003 and Shadi's life is in shambles. Her dad is in the hospital, her brother is dead, and her mother is barely holding it together. When an old face reappears, Shadi must decide if she wants to fight these battles alone.
You, Me, and Our Heartstrings by Melissa See: A video showing a girl with cerebral palsy and a boy with anxiety playing music together goes viral. Now facing unrealistic pressure to perform, Daisy is afraid that their lives will fall apart.
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson: Technically, it's horror/thriller, but this has one of my favorite (and accurate) portrayals of anxiety. Something is wrong with Marigold's new house. Forced to move with her family after an incident, she discovers that there is something rotten beneath the perfect neighborhood that could be linked to a disturbing history.
Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz: School columnist Isabel considers breaking all of her rules when she meets a fellow disabled teen. But romance isn't always like what's shown in the movies, especially for disabled teens.
Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant: An anxious writer, Tessa, reaches for her dreams by enrolling into a prestigious school. As her friends try to help her find inspiration for her writing, there might be a love story just out of reach.
A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard: Selectively mute, Steffi is alone in her last year of school, leaving her social anxiety to spike. Until the new kid arrives, and he needs a translator who knows BSL.
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an emotion of great delight by tahereh mafi - review
Read from: May 19 2022 - May 19 2022
Rating: ⭐️⭐️.5/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Major TWs: islamophobia, depression, suicidal ideation, death (particularly of a family member (full and detailed list of TWs can be found here)
Thoughts: this definitely was not as good as mafi’s other book that i read, a very large expanse of sea, but i did find myself enjoying some of it. the problem is that there isn’t really a lot to say about this one? i initially gave it a 3.5/5 stars on goodreads but after a few months, i think i’m going to drop it to a 2.5. the prose is beautiful, unsurprisingly, and there are definitely a lot of emotions in this one (mostly sad ones, all of which are described well), but i found the overall story to be a little lacking. it feels almost unfinished? i don’t know. i really wanted to like this one, but it sadly didn’t do it for me.
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“I saw the latent danger in the storytelling, the caricature we were becoming, two billion Muslims quickly solidifying into a faceless, terrifying mass. We were being stripped of gradation, of complexity. “The news was turning us into monsters, which made us so much easier to murder.”
An Emotion of Great Delight — Tahereh Mafi
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Title: An Emotion of Great Delight
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Series or standalone: standalone
Publication year: 2021
Genres: fiction, contemporary, romance, historical fiction, mental health
Blurb: It's several months since the U.S. officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Tensions are high, hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down; she's too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the time to deal with bigots. Shadi is named for joy, but she's haunted by sorrow. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has mysteriously dropped out of her life. Of course, there's also the small matter of her heart: it's broken. Shadi tries to navigate her crumbling world by soldiering through, saying nothing. She devours her own pain, each day retreating farther and farther inside herself...until, finally, one day, everything changes. She explodes.
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An Emotion of Great Delight
Tahereh Mafi
🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤍🤍🤍 (7/10)
PG/13+
It’s funny - i often think of the descriptor “a slice of life” as something that exists in movies and tv shows but not books. Books have to have far more of a plot than a slice of life can suggest. But here we are.
This book has no plot. This is not a criticism.
It simply... is.
In some ways it makes me question the writer-ish part of my brain that insists all stories must have a plot. That they cannot simply... exist. After all, which is more like life?
Part of it made me get close to the end, and get confused about there being a cliffhanger ending or a second part I wasn’t aware of? Because surely there wasn’t enough time for a problem and a conclusion. But there just... wasn’t one. It simply ended, the suitable time after it had begun. Not all things were resolved. But in life what is?
Favourite Character:
I dont know? Maybe Ali? As much as i enjoyed the book, i honestly dont know i was attached too deeply to any of the characters to actually have a favourite one by the end?
Favourite Quote:
Probably: “There was no refuge for my brand of loneliness. I was neither Iranian enough to be accepted by Iranians, nor American enough to be accepted by my peers. I was neither religious enough for people at the mosque, nor secular enough for the rest of the world. I lived, always, on the uncertain plane of a hyphen.”
Alternatively: “It seemed a terrible injustice to be exposed in death, to be found out as predictably human, as frail as everyone else.”
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I've been on this hellsite a long time, which means that I have seen many a ship immortalized in a gifset featuring the iconic line from Annelyse Gelman's "The Pillowcase":
I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered
if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.
And all I'm saying is what were all those tender gazes for in Endgame and TFATWS if not for Sam/Bucky to get the same treatment?
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I really feel the quote;
"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy one, I will indulge the other." -(1994 Frankenstein)
Works very well when applied to Edward.
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You know what else? 2022 was also a really great year for fiction for me
My special interest in The Owl House continued through the whole year because Season 2B/the start of S3 were both phenomenal; I had a resurgence of feelings about the first Critical Role campaign because The Legend of Vox Machina really exceeded my expectations as an adaptation; The Locked Tomb series got me reading again in a BIG way; and now here at the end of the year I am a puddle of emotions about Pentiment and telling everyone I know to play it
All incredibly good stories, that also make me have emotions ABOUT stories, and all sort of interesting/weird/unique in their own way. There's some extremely tasty thematic intersections between them all too which I think is doing a lot for me as a storyteller and writer myself.
(Also they all have actual queer characters and I love that for them.)
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hate how people have pathologized narcissists into being this extraordinarily harmful type of person. it’s so fucking exhausting. either that’s someone with a personality disorder and you’re being ableist. or you’ve just encountered an incredibly self-absorbed asshole and, look, that’s not a special kinda abuse it’s just the fucking toll of being alive
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