Kat Mehrer’s Reviews > We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir > Status Update

"Grown-ups, who are supposed to protect their children, are limited by what "best" has felt like to them, based on the circumstances they grew up in and the privilege they did or did not have. The lines between grown-up and child were often blurred between me and my mom. Her "best" did not look like mine; in fact, it looked like danger. It felt like surrender." Pg. 70-71