“What stayed with me most is the emotional honesty at the heart of the story … I admire how you trust young readers to engage with complex realities, faith, identity, injustice, climate anxiety, without simplifying them or offering easy resolutions. That kind of respect for the reader stays with people long after the final page.” —Susanna Clarke, author of Piranesi.

The Rise up trilogy is a coming-of-age story about Hashim, Alex and Maryam, three best friends on the threshold of adulthood. Before they can find their place in this world, they must come to terms with their past and learn to confide in each other as they are confronted by intolerance, ignorance, and corporate greed that threaten to rob them of their future. Inspirational, harrowing, intense and deeply moving, this trilogy presents a ray of hope amidst terrible hardship, misfortune and loss.