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Mutmainah is 16% done with Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America
There's something in the water at the New Yorker - diligently researched, beautifully structured, and randomly, with prose about the Dakota prairies to rival Willa Cather. I'm also finding myself feeling nostalgic (thanks in large part to Deabornites) about a time where North American muslims were more deeply politically engaged but Ali is deconstructing my nostalgia.
— Sep 27, 2026 01:31PM Add a comment
Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America

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Mutmainah is on page 106 of 304 of Call and Response
I keep thinking of Purple Hibiscus as I’m reading this (high compliment). There’s something so transportive and tender about her prose, it’s like the essence of homesickness itself.
— Sep 20, 2026 05:29PM Add a comment
Call and Response

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Mutmainah is 15% done with The Death of the Heart
getting some mental stimulation and entertainment in equal turns, I need to up my diet of classics before my brain atrophies.
— Sep 20, 2026 01:44PM Add a comment
The Death of the Heart

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Mutmainah is 55% done with Isola
This is such a departure from her first book. That one made a big impression on me, this one has me feeling like I’d rather be reading the whole Dear Canada backlog
— Sep 16, 2026 02:29PM Add a comment
Isola

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Mutmainah is on page 47 of 304 of Call and Response
Love this bit - “We wanted love, and to be literate in love … We wanted heartbreak, but only enough that our hearts required no worse cure than languishing in bed with a tub of ice cream … We were afraid they would love us to our deaths and that, even in our deaths, they would consume us”
— Sep 12, 2026 01:24PM Add a comment
Call and Response

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Mutmainah is 87% done with Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
wild how she keeps killing momentum and ild how little she trusts the reader
— Sep 07, 2026 12:07AM Add a comment
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage

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Mutmainah is 51% done with This Green and Pleasant Land
I’m starting to accept that Sofia Khan 2 wasn’t just an outlier, this author has a sadist streak
— Aug 27, 2026 02:26PM Add a comment
This Green and Pleasant Land

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Mutmainah is 36% done with This Green and Pleasant Land
Irritation all around with this cast of characters
— Aug 24, 2026 10:05AM Add a comment
This Green and Pleasant Land

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Mutmainah is 35% done with Three Days in June
First Anne Tyler in 4 years. It’s coming home.
— Aug 21, 2026 04:17PM Add a comment
Three Days in June

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Mutmainah is 35% done with You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
Hate hate the phrase ‘mother wound’ but here we are anyway. The ‘This American Life’ episode with Loftus and Nicole is never far from my mind so a character portrait has answered many questions (and raised a few more).
— Aug 14, 2026 05:30PM Add a comment
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters

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Mutmainah is 24% done with Quicksand
What a tragedy that this is Larsen 2/2
— Jul 31, 2026 12:45PM Add a comment
Quicksand

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Mutmainah is 61% done with Native Speaker
Worried the first few pages the regressive 90s racial politics would be hard to shake, instead this is so topical i feel like it sought me out for this particular moment. Not an annotator but i need a physical copy to tear up.
— May 20, 2026 09:01PM Add a comment
Native Speaker

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Mutmainah is 25% done with The Mercy Step
Even precocious children have their limits
— Apr 16, 2026 06:16AM Add a comment
The Mercy Step

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Mutmainah is 42% done with Mother Mary Comes to Me
“Mrs Roy taught me to be free then raged against my thoughts. She taught me to be free and raged against my freedom. She taught me to write and resented the author I became”
— Apr 06, 2026 08:14AM Add a comment
Mother Mary Comes to Me

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Mutmainah is 16% done with Mother Mary Comes to Me
The introductory chapter hit me over the head - and she’s still going!
— Apr 01, 2026 02:15PM Add a comment
Mother Mary Comes to Me

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