This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi

This was such a wonderfully fun, cute, and touching contemporary story about friends working together to save their bookstore! I had so much fun reading it, laughing aloud at parts, and being really moved at other parts. Many thanks to the publisher, Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends, for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Before the day is out, there’ll be shaved heads, a diva author, and a very large shipment of Air Jordans to contend with.Īnd it will take all three of them working together if they have any chance to save Wild Nights Bookstore. 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. (Oct.Synopsis // Set over the course of one day, Aminah Mae Safi’s This Is All Your Fault is a smart and voice-driven YA novel that follows three young women determined to save their indie bookstore. 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