First off, I will say I received a copy of this book through the Early Reviewers program at LibraryThing, and I'm grateful to the publishers for the opportunity to read this.

I think this book is well-meaning but in some ways it Tries Way Too Hard--like obviously Azza comes from a good place, but sometimes she reads as like. Stupid, rather than out of her depth culturally. The plot about the college seems far-fetched at best, and while the work is clearly of the present, its lack of historical ties make some of the points seem loose and disconnected. (The references to the Muslim ban, for example, disconnected from the actual context of the current administration's Islamophobic policies, fall kind of short.) Azza's PTSD is also never really put into context for us, nor named as such. And

boy was I not convinced by a college junior falling in love with a high school senior--the maturity gap there is enormous.

It's not a bad book, it just tried to tackle too much without enough attention to each piece. There are kids maybe who might find this book interesting, but mostly I found it lacking.