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The girl in the tangerine scarf : a novel

Kahf, Mohja, 1967- author

2007

Overview

\"Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault lines between \"Muslim\" and \"American.\"\" \"When her picture-perfect marriage goes sour, Khadra flees to Syria and learns how to pray again. On returning to America she works in an eastern state - taking care to stay away from Indiana, where the murder of her friend Tayiba's sister by Klan violence years before still haunts her. But when her job sends her to cover a national Islamic conference in Indianapolis, she's back on familiar ground finding herself attending a concert by her brother's interfaith band The Clash of Civilizations, dodging questions from the \"aunties\" and \"uncles,\" and running into the recently divorced Hakim everywhere. The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf charts the spiritual and social landscape of Muslims in middle America, from five daily prayers to the Indy 500 car race.\"--Jacket.

• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Subject: Muslim women Fiction / Indiana Fiction / Syria Fiction
• ISBN: 9780786715190, 0786715197

Item info:

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Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS 3611 .A35 G57 2007	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE