This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi

Before the day is out, there’ll be shaved heads, a diva author and a very large shipment of Air Jordans to contend with. Instead, they have to deal with the news that the bookstore is closing. When Rinn, Daniella and Imogen clock into work at Wild Nights Bookstore on the first day of summer, they’re expecting the hours to drift by the way they always do. Imogen Azar is just trying to make it through the day. Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that she’s in love with him.ĭaniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows it’s her.

Here’s the full description from Safi’s publisher: It’s a little bit Empire Records, a little bit The Breakfast Club and definitely not to be missed. Safi’s latest, This Is All Your Fault, takes aim at our bookish hearts with the story of three teen girls on a mission to save their favorite indie bookstore. From Not the Girls You’re Looking For to Tell Me How You Really Feel, her narratives are consistently packed with humor and warmth. (Oct.If you’ve picked up a book by Aminah Mae Safi, you know that she writes wonderfully diverse and inclusive YA contemporary novels. Agent: Lauren MacLeod, the Strothman Agency. Using a rotating third-person perspective, Safi writes an energizing, character-driven celebration of belonging, acceptance, and sisterhood with a clear nod to the importance of community spaces. As they’re pushed to their limits with planning, mourning the loss of an institution while assisting customers, and dealing with an entitled popular author, each begins to appreciate and better understand the others, seeing beyond superficial assumptions. The store unites its teenage co-workers: bubbly bookstagrammer Rinn Olivera, who is biracial (of Mexican and German descent), is perpetually camera ready sarcastic bleached blonde Daniella Korres, who is white, secretly shares poetry online and Lebanese American Imogen Azar is adept at hiding her inner turmoil. When the staff of Wild Nights Bookstore and Emporium discovers that the shop is closing in just two weeks, they each try to find a way to prevent its going under, from flipping $9,000 worth of Air Jordans to crunching suspicious inventory numbers and breaking the strictly enforced “no photography, no phones” rule. A trio of unlikely friends rally their Chicago community to save a beloved independent bookstore in Safi’s ( Tell Me How You Really Feel) quirky offering.

This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi