Worlds Away
- ISBN-10
- 1630211605
- ISBN-13
- 9781630211608
- Category
- Drama
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-14
- Author
- Kristy Thomas
Description
Afsana is a Muslim- American girl who has found love in a place that she knows will not be accepted by her family or her religion. After meeting Jason in one of her college classes, dating and falling in love with him she decides that telling her family would not be the best thing to do for anyone. But when her father sets her up with a young Muslim man that he believes will be perfect for her she comes clean and tells them the truth. After which her father and mother cut her out of their lives. Afsana then moves in with Jason and they begin their life together. Jason is in the Marines and is on a tour in Afghanistan when he is gunned down but a group of Muslim militants. Afsana is left picking up the pieces and accepting that the man that she loved was killed by the culture she represents. It wasn't until the loss of Jason that her parents come around. They are there with her when his flag is delivered and her father often asks her to tell him a story about Jason. The hardest thing to deal with is the idea that Jason was not accepted until he was dead, but at least her parents know that he was her everything. Will Afsana ever be able to move on? She asks herself the same question as the scene ends. (*Student should be of Muslim or Arabic background. There is Arabic within the piece as well as prayers.)
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