2022 Honor Book: LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Nothing short of magic. --Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africas 30 Under 30 list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have been. Woven through with moments of lyrical beauty, this is a tender meditation on family, belonging, and home. my mother meant to name me for her favorite flowerits sweetness garlands made for pretty girlsi imagine her yasmeen bright & alive& i ache to have been born her insteadNima wishes she were someone else. She doesnt feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesnt feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isnt different enough to belong elsewhere. Her best friend, Haitham, is the only person with whom she can truly be herself. Until she cant, and suddenly her only refuge is gone. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen--the name her parents meant to give her at birth--Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might be more real than Nima knows. And the life Nima wishes were someone elses. . . is one she will need to fight for with a fierceness she never knew she possessed.Safia Elhillo is the author of the poetry collection The January Children, which received the the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, she holds an MFA from The New School, a Cave Canem Fellowship, and a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Safia is a Pushcart Prize nominee, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and listed in Forbes Africas 2018 30 Under 30. She is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.Coretta Scott King AwardBook specifications:Dimensions: 206 x 137Author: Safia ElhilloCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2022Publishing Month: 2Pages: 224Language: EnglishPublisher: Make Me a WorldWeight: 159 g