num_pages: 277
description: A music-loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in this heart-pounding literary debut.Melati Ahmad looks like your typical moviegoing Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her one who threatens her with horrific images of her mothers death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied.But there are things that Melati can't protect her mother from. On the evening of May 13th 1969 racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and Malays are at war and Mel and her mother become separated by a city in flames. With a 24-hour curfew in place and all lines of communication down it will take the help of a Chinese boy named Vincent and all of the courage and grit in Melatis arsenal to overcome the violence on the streets her own prejudices and her djinns surging power to make it back to the one person she cant risk losing.---**Content warnings: Racism graphic violence on-page death OCD and anxiety triggers.**
language: English
title: The Weight of Our Sky
publisher: Salaam Reads