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“The willingness of white racists to use our community’s problems as ammunition makes it incredibly hard to criticise it without feeling like a traitor” - I think it this exact sentiment as to why I am unsure about how I feel about this book. The blatant obfuscation of Islam’s issues takes it away from being a genuinely nuanced discussion of what it means to be a muslim woman

I am somewhat enjoying it so far, but I think it’s very slanted around one kind experience- which is weird to say bc the whole point is to get 17 different muslim women’s experiences

This feels like a light novel even if it’s technically not. I think that’s my issue with a lot of translated novels (esp Japanese) is that the nuance / phrasing doesn’t translate well, so the prose sounds clunky. Eg. ‘He looked at her perplexed, as if he didn’t understand what she meant’ - it just ends up having so much telling that it’s hard to read