Jennifer Abdo’s Reviews > The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf > Status Update

Describing Khadra's doubts and spiritual reckoning, I particularly like these phrases:

useless head-clutter, hard polished surfaces posing as spiritual guidance, beliefs ladled on a plate to eat because it's there. "Maybe she believed some if it, maybe she didn't-- but it needed to be cleared out so she could find out for herself this time."