And the conflict between Iraq and the Kurds, as well as other wars and the Arab Spring, she says, permeated the plot of the third volume, A Reaper at the Gates (2018). Ember’s sequel, A Torch Against the Night (2016), was prompted by the global refugee crisis, which Tahir recalled having risen to “new levels of insanity” at the time she was writing. While the first volume, An Ember in the Ashes, was published in 2015, it was conceptualized more than a decade ago while Tahir worked on the international desk at the Washington Post, copy editing heart-rending stories such as one about young Kashmiri males being taken from their families by the military and never returning home. “I knew that the first book would be heavily influenced by world events, but I didn’t necessarily realize that this would continue.” “The story evolved in unexpected ways,” Sabaa Tahir acknowledges of her YA fantasy series An Ember in the Ashes, which concludes today with the release of A Sky Beyond the Storm.
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