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CHOSEN AS A 2026 MUST-READ BOOK BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, NEW ARAB AND BBC CULTURE 'AWFULLY ADDICTIVE . . . PEOPLE, GOOD AND BAD, ARE GOING TO LOVE IT' GUARDIAN 'SHARP, THOUGHTFUL AND CRACKLING WITH TENSION' PANDORA SYKES'A SPECTACULAR TRIUMPH' KHALED HOSSEINI'THRILLING. I'LL BE RECOMMENDING THIS BOOK TO EVERYONE' ANN PATCHETT'GORGEOUS AND POWERFUL' TOMMY ORANGE, NEW YORK TIMES'INCREDIBLY MOVING, STUNNINGLY INSIGHTFUL AND COMPLETELY ADDICTIVE' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS'GRIPPING STUFF' DAILY MAIL'UTTERLY ADDICTIVE . . . WILL HAVE EVERYONE TALKING' PAULA HAWKINS______________________________________________________________EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . .The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighbourhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father's eye.But when Zorah dies in an unthinkable tragedy, the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that the Sharafs' happy household was anything but, and soon the veneer of the model immigrant family starts to crumble.Those who knew her best - and those who never met her - all have an opinion on who Zorah really was, and what really happened to her . . .Told through the chorus of voices surrounding the Sharafs, Good People is a riveting, provocative and unforgettable story of community, family and identity.___________________________________________________________________________'THIS YEAR'S MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT...MORE THAN LIVES UP TO THE HYPE' STYLIST'THRILLING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' ECONOMIST'A SWEEPING FAMILY SAGA' SUNDAY TIMES'PROPULSIVE' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'BRILLIANT' MONICA ALI'A BLINDER OF A DEBUT' IRISH INDEPENDENT'GRIPPING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' LOUISE O'NEILL'A CLEVER WHODUNNIT' RED'UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSE YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR' ANNA BAILEY'THRILLING AND ADDICTIVE' INEWS'ABSOLUTELY RIVETING' EMMA VAN STRAATEN

CHOSEN AS A 2026 MUST-READ BOOK BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, NEW ARAB AND BBC CULTURE 'AWFULLY ADDICTIVE . . . PEOPLE, GOOD AND BAD, ARE GOING TO LOVE IT' GUARDIAN 'SHARP, THOUGHTFUL AND CRACKLING WITH TENSION' PANDORA SYKES'A SPECTACULAR TRIUMPH' KHALED HOSSEINI'THRILLING. I'LL BE RECOMMENDING THIS BOOK TO EVERYONE' ANN PATCHETT'GORGEOUS AND POWERFUL' TOMMY ORANGE, NEW YORK TIMES'INCREDIBLY MOVING, STUNNINGLY INSIGHTFUL AND COMPLETELY ADDICTIVE' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS'GRIPPING STUFF' DAILY MAIL'UTTERLY ADDICTIVE . . . WILL HAVE EVERYONE TALKING' PAULA HAWKINS______________________________________________________________EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . .The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighbourhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father's eye.But when Zorah dies in an unthinkable tragedy, the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that the Sharafs' happy household was anything but, and soon the veneer of the model immigrant family starts to crumble.Those who knew her best - and those who never met her - all have an opinion on who Zorah really was, and what really happened to her . . .Told through the chorus of voices surrounding the Sharafs, Good People is a riveting, provocative and unforgettable story of community, family and identity.___________________________________________________________________________'THIS YEAR'S MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT...MORE THAN LIVES UP TO THE HYPE' STYLIST'THRILLING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' ECONOMIST'A SWEEPING FAMILY SAGA' SUNDAY TIMES'PROPULSIVE' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'BRILLIANT' MONICA ALI'A BLINDER OF A DEBUT' IRISH INDEPENDENT'GRIPPING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' LOUISE O'NEILL'A CLEVER WHODUNNIT' RED'UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSE YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR' ANNA BAILEY'THRILLING AND ADDICTIVE' INEWS'ABSOLUTELY RIVETING' EMMA VAN STRAATEN

Zehra Sharaf is the idolized teenage daughter of Afghan American parents who escaped the horrors of war in Afghanistan and resettled as refugees in Northern Virginia. Zehra is going to graduate from her prestigious high school with honors. She's going to go to Georgetown and then Harvard Law School. One day, the Sharafs boast, she might even be a Supreme Court Justice.When Zehra's body is discovered in a car at the bottom of a canal, her family is shattered - and as the investigation unfolds, the illusion of their perfect teenage daughter is shattered as well. In the eyes of her Afghan community, Zehra was a rebel who had disgraced her family by running away with a boy. According to her friends, she was a young woman torn between her ultra-conservative community and her desire to live on her own terms. Soon everyone who hears about the case has their own certainty as to whether Zehra's death was a terrible accident-or whether the Sharafs are guilty of an honour crime against their own daughter.Told through the voices surrounding the Sharafs, Good People traces the immigrant family's rags-to-riches rise; moves through the year leading up to Zehra's tragedy; and explores the aftermath as the twin forces of the police investigation and the court of public opinion draw battle lines between those who knew Zehra and her family best and those who think they know them...