Description

AfghanAmerican Mafis sophomore year gets a whole lot more complicated when she accidentally exposes family secrets putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger in this smartly written YA debut

Sixteenyearold Mafi Shahin is wellaware that life is not always fair If it was fair her parents might allow her to hang out with a member of the male species other than her cat Mr Meowgi If it was fair her crush and basketball hottie Jalen Thomas might see her as more than just her brothers kid sister And if it was fair her babas brother and wife would be able to leave Afghanistan and come to America

Life might not be fairbut she can make it a bit more even Working as the Ghost of Santa Margarita High Mafi serves dollops of justice on her classmates behalf as the schools secret avenger They leave a note declaring the crime and Mafi ensures the offender receives an anonymous karmicsized dose of payback Keeping her identity as the Ghost a secret sometimes means Mafi has to lie But as those lies begin to snowball both at school and at home even compromising their familys secret past and putting their relatives back in Afghanistan at risk Mafi is forced to decide how she wants to live her lifetrying to make the world more fair from the shadows or loudly and publicly standing up for whats right