The Weight of Our Sky

Set during the 1969 race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the story follows Melati Ahmad, a music-loving sixteen-year-old struggling with a severe form of OCD. She believes a djinn lives inside her, threatening her with gruesome images of her mother’s death unless she performs elaborate counting rituals. When racial tensions between the Malay and Chinese communities explode into deadly violence, Melati is separated from her mother. To survive the chaos and find her way home, she must navigate a city consumed by prejudice and bloodshed with the help of a Chinese boy named Vincent, all while battling the internal 'djinn' that threatens to overwhelm her mind.

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