Kahf's coming-of-age novel follows Khadra Shamy, daughter of Syrian immigrants, from rigid certainty to a more capacious faith, against a backdrop that includes Klan violence.
It illuminates external Islamophobia and internal community tensions, including intra-Muslim racism and the history of Black American Muslims. Warm, funny, and unapologetically Muslim.
Content note: racist violence, the murder of a friend's sister.
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