Love from A to Z by S. K. Ali EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Authors: S. K. Ali
- Publish Date: April 30, 2019
- Language: English
- Genre: Romantic, Thriller, Teen, Fiction
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2 MB
- Pages: 352
- Price: Free
- ISBN: 1534442723
MARVEL: TWO SATURDAYS IN MARCH
ON THE MORNING OF SATURDAY, March 14, fourteen-year-old Adam Chen went
to the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.
A thirteenth-century drawing of a tree caught his gaze. It wasn’t particularly
striking or artistic. He didn’t know why this tree caused him to stride forward as if
magnetized. (When he thinks about it now, his guess is thus: Trees were kind of
missing in the landscape he found himself in at the time, and so he was hungry for
them.
Once he got close, he was rewarded with the name of the manuscript that
housed this simple tree sketch: The Marvels of Creation and the Oddities of
Existence.
He stood there thinking about this grand title for along moment.
Then something clicked in his mind: Maybe that’s what living is—recognizing
the marvels and oddities around you.
From that day, he vowed to record the marvels he knew to be true and the
oddities he wished weren’t.
Adam, being Adam, found himself marveling more than ruminating on the
weird bits of existing.
We pick up his Marvels and Oddities journal on March 7, four years after that
Saturday at the Museum of Islamic Art.
Eighteen now, Adam is a freshman in college, but it’s important to know that
he has stopped going to classes two months ago.
He has decided to live.
• • •
On the very late evening of Saturday, March 11, sixteen-year-old Zayneb Malik
clicked on a link in her desperation to finish a project. She’d promised a Muslim
Clothing Through the Ages poster for the Islamic History Fair at the mosque, and
it was due in nine hours, give or take afew hours of sleep.
Perhaps it was because of the late hour, but the link was oddly intriguing to a
girl looking for thirteenth-century hijab styles: Al-Qazwini’s Catalogue of Life as It
Existed in the Islamic World, 1275 AD.
The link opened to an ancient book.
The Marvels of Creation and the Oddities of Existence.
A description of the book followed, but Zayneb could not read on.
“Marvels” and “oddities” perfectly described the reality of her life right then.
The next day, after returning from the history fair (and taking a nap), she began
a journal and kept it going for the next two years, recording the wonders and
thorns in the garden of her life.
Zayneb, being Zayneb, focused on the latter. She dedicated her journal entries
to pruning the prickly overgrowth that stifled her young life.
By the time we meet her at eighteen, she’s become an expert gardener, ready to
shear the world.
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