Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she’s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist’s job is to find the facts and not let personal biases affect the story. But all that changes the day she finds the body of a murdered boy. Jawad Ali was fourteen years old when he built a cosplay jetpack that a teacher mistook for a bomb. A jetpack that got him arrested, labeled a terrorist—and eventually killed. But he’s more than a dead body, and more than “Bomb Boy.” He was a person with a life worth… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Racism & white supremacy
- Islamomisia
- Antisemitism mentioned
- Hate crime
- Blood depiction
- Emesis
- Death of a child
- Murder
- Police brutality
- Kidnapping
- Car accident
- Terrorism
- Bullying