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Moving, honest, and deeply personal, red scarf girl is the incredible true story of one girl s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century. Dec 07, 2006 the girl in the tangerine scarf, a new novel by mojha kahf is about a syrian girl transplanted to the american midwest in the 1970s. In the book, the girl in the tangerine scarf, by mohja kahf, it shows the life of a daughter, khadra shamy, of. The use of girl in the title is strange since, as is made clear by the cover, she has a tangerine scarf as a woman, not as a girl. The girl in the tangerine scarf mohja kahf, author.
I was surprised at how much i could identify with khadra and how much i could identify with those who angered and hurt her. Click download or read online button to get original story by book now. It is set mostly in indianapolis, against recent historical events. Beautifully written and featuring an exuberant cast of characters, 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.
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Along with her brother eyad and her africanamerican friends, hakim and hanifa, she bikes the indianapolis streets exploring the fault. The girl in the tangerine scarf is an amazingly balanced book, presenting a 3dimensional representation of growing up in islam in america. Though this story is about khadra, a syrianamerican muslim who grows up in indiana in the 1970s and 80s, its really the story of finding a balance between your parents beliefs and histories and your own. Americans dated and fornicated and committed adultery.