Status Updates From In the Country I Love

Already emotional because Imam Hussain is mentioned in the first sentence

i'm about to throw hands because MEN!

“Don't tell anyone about Ali ... Not even Ayah. Not even Khaled. I don't care if you do not marry him, but you cannot shame him this way. Only let Allah judge him.”

Too bad bc I'M judging

‘He shook his head. “Don't you think I deserve to know the truth? I'm so sick of everyone lying to me.”’

I just realized that this whole book is the embodiment of the miscommunication trope 🫠

‘“It should've been you.” Ali knotted his hands, continuing to spill his foolish heart onto the floor. “If we'd stayed together, maybe none of this would've happened.”’

This fuckboy is giving me the ICK

“Khaled, Ali, and others had revealed his Shia identity early in their social media posts. After finding out he was Shia, some Muslims had threatened to retract their hospital bill donations and left crude comments. He was a kafir, they claimed. A sinner who committed shirk because he came from a sect that prayed on blessed clay and endearingly commemorated Imam Hussein each year.”

Sad

just read the prologue and i’m already gobsmacked??? the writing is so insanely good my jaw is actually on the floor right now