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From pages 175 and 176 of Viswanathan’s novel: “Sean only wanted me as a friend. A nonsexual female friend. That was a good thing. There would be no tension to complicate our relationship and my soon-to-be relationship with Jeff Akel. I was relieved...
...Chemistry Club afflicted not just with “flaming carroty-orange hair” but also “a bad case of acne”; Devon Schwartz, a jock who tells Opal she can call him “the Schwartzmeister”; and Jeff Akel, the dreamy, Princeton-bound student body president whose teeth are “so white they could have been in a Crest commercial...
...thing, the book is a total pleasure. In Opal’s peers, the caricatures’ intended humor usually falls flat, but not always. The Republican Party aspirant Jeff Akel is a hilarious exception. Trying to spread conservative values across his high school, Akel prints posters with slogans like “If from drink you get your thrill, take precaution—write your will” and “All the dangerous drug abusers end up safe as total losers.” He advocates a three-pronged policy that includes bringing random locker searches...
...Fahed Abu-Akel, a Palestinian-American pastor from Atlanta, noted that Presbyterianism is the largest Protestant denomination in the Middle East, with half a million members in the region. “For the last 200 years, the Presbyterian Church has been involved there,” he said...
...Akel said that the church supported the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, but that it has repeatedly called on Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders...