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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel | Mojha Kahf
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Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault-lines between Muslim and American. When her picture-perfect marriage goes sour, Khadra flees to Syria and learns how to pray again. On returning to America she works in an eastern state taking care to stay away from Indiana, where the murder of her friend Tayibas sister by Klan violence years before still haunts her. But when her job sends her to cover a national Islamic conference in Indianapolis, shes back on familiar ground: Attending a concert by her brothers interfaith band The Clash of Civilizations, dodging questions from the aunties and uncles, and running into the recently divorced Hakim everywhere. Beautifully written and featuring an exuberant cast of characters, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf charts the spiritual and social landscape of Muslims in middle America, from five daily prayers to the Indy 500 car race. It is a riveting debut from an important new voice.
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Madelpadel
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I didn‘t like this book at first, but I have come to think that was an intentional move by Kahf. The main character struggles with finding her place within her religion, her family and community, and America, and I think that‘s why it‘s hard for readers to find their place, too. Reading this book you feel a little of what the protagonist feels and you really get insight into a world that‘s not often talked about. Not in this way at least.

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LibrarianRyan
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Court7
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Beautiful, just beautiful. A little haunting, a little longing, a little challenging, a little inspiring, a little enlightening. Hard to remember you are reading fiction sometimes do one must and it is based in someone's or many someones' truth, if not their facts. Beautiful.

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sunnyskiedlaura
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I was in a bit of a reading rut but then I checked this book out of the library. I have hardly been able to put it down since page one!