The Diverse Shelf discussion

Did anyone read them?

My library didn't have Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, and my used copy only got here a week ago, but I look forward to eventually reading it.

I loved Ten Things I Hate About Me. I think Abdel-Fattah did a really excellent job with the subject, and I loved Jamilah. Everything was predictable, but being a teenage is pretty predictable, and that wasn't really the point of the book. The audiobook was also really well done. I have a thing about Australian writers (never been disappointed by them), so I was happy to see that's where this author hailed from (and where it's set).

I have an Egyptian half-aunt who we found out about after my granddaddy died (sigh), and we helped her and her sons prove their citizenship and move here. I often wonder how my little cousin dealt with issues of identity (and racism/Islamophobia). I think he was 10 when they moved to Atlanta from Cairo (same age as my oldest aunt when they moved to a Cairo suburb from New Jersey).