Status Updates From Becoming Iman: An Adventure...

Finally finished it!

Still nothing worth writing home about :(

I'm almost half way but there's no grip or pull factor. She mentions interesting points like "Apartheid has made everything that is black appear ugly", talks about being caught between coloured & Indian invisible catfights but doesn't drill into it.I expected more as she is of mixed race (indian&coloured).She just talks through her life without much weight in the discussions. The book is basically a casual chat.

“Narcissus has nothing on him, baby”

The book is funny in parts - and probably unlike anything you’ll ever read on anyone else’s conversion (to? from?) Islam.

It will of course offend many.

Another memorable line: Your beef should be with the idiot you are with [,] not the sister that is trying her luck with him.

From religious seminaries to nightclubs, the book is, uh, authentic.

Ok, I can appreciate down-to-earth. But really. “A biryani of people lived in the block”

She’s not wrong in drawing the connection between mu’tah (as commonly practiced) and South Africa’s ‘Blesser’ culture