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A review by rebekahmay
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write by Sabrina Mahfouz
4.0
This book was just so much more than I was expecting it to be. It's hard to review as a whole because there is such a wide range of works in here, from short stories to poems to essays to plays, but what I can easily conclude is that every single one of them is good. Some are better than others, like in any collection, but there wasn't one work that I didn't like, or that I skipped, or that dragged at all. The sheer amount of talent in here is incredible. One of the women that contributed to this is 14. FOURTEEN. And it was genuinely one of the best pieces in this collection.
This collection is a window into the world of British Muslim women. First and second generation immigrants and refugees, mixed race Muslims, religious and non-religious, stories across the whole spectrum are featured in the book. It touches on so many aspects of life and different worries and loves and cultures.
I will be reading this collection again. I'd like to spend more time with it, to annotate it. I also want to find and pick up other works by the authors that contributed to this book. I genuinely highly recommend this book.
This collection is a window into the world of British Muslim women. First and second generation immigrants and refugees, mixed race Muslims, religious and non-religious, stories across the whole spectrum are featured in the book. It touches on so many aspects of life and different worries and loves and cultures.
I will be reading this collection again. I'd like to spend more time with it, to annotate it. I also want to find and pick up other works by the authors that contributed to this book. I genuinely highly recommend this book.