Saints and Misfits
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Jul 15 2017
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9781481499248
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If You Could Be Mine
Did you know it's easier to be transsexual in Iran than homosexual? According to the novel and Wikipedia, the only country in the world that does more sex reassigngment surgeries than Iran is Thailand, and many of the surgeries are subsidized by the government. Being born the wrong gender is an ailment, being queer is a sinful aberration. So that's what our heroine Sahar is dealing with as her best friend, who she has wanted to marry since the girls were six years old, gets engaged to a dude.
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Nov 28 2013
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978-1-61620-251-4
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Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam, the
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Personality, that compromise between one's soul and one's culture.
A middle-class white American who grew up atheist comes out as Muslim. Though she has to convert officially to be square with Egypt, the way Wilson describes her relationship with the religion calls to mind realizing or accepting that you're gay, not becoming so.
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Mar 8 2013
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978-0-8021-1887-5
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Love, InshAllah: the Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
Twenty five Muslim women, most of them pretty observant, many of them converts, share their love stories. To a heathen like me the mystery of these women's lives isn't Islam; it's their devotion to it. Maybe I was expecting some secular Muslim contributions, but that was probably dumb. Anyway, the women's tales are heartfelt and straightforward. Surprises include the two chapters written by lesbians and the matter-of-fact and reasonable sounding appeal of polygyny.
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Aug 13 2012
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978-1-59376-428-9