The picture of nobody
By: Rabindranath Maharaj
Series: Good reads series; Good reads series (Edmonton, Alta.)
Publisher: Grass Roots Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Edmonton, Canada]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781926583280
Subjects: Readers for new literates
Description: Tommy lives with his family in Ajax, a small town close to Toronto. His parents are Ismaili Muslims who immigrated to Canada before Tommy was born. Tommy, a shy, chubby seventeen-year-old, feels like an outsider. The arrest of a terrorist group in Toronto turns Tommy's world upside down. No one noticed him before. Now, he experiences the sting of racism at the local coffee shop where he works part-time. A group of young men who hang out at the coffee shop begin to bully him. In spite, Tommy commits an act of revenge against the group's ringleader.