5. Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women Ed. Ayesha Mattu & Nura Maznavi Along the bookstore tour of the DC/Baltimore area, I introduced my friend to Busboys and Poets on 14th & V St. Though it's sadly more of a restaurant (or happily, the food is quite good) than a bookstore, it still has a uniquely curated collection of activist literature and poetry. In fact, the last time I'd been there, I almost bought Love, InshAllah , because a girl I knew from high school was published in it. Instead, I surreptitiously read her story and left, because I couldn't justify the expense. This time, I decided to splurge (the main difference between now and then being that I can count on having employment). Love InshAllah fulfills two of my reading goals this year: more short stories and authors from a minority group. On these fronts, it is quite successful. These stories are exactly what they claim to be, experiences of American Muslim women from ...
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