eviecook0708 's review for:

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.

4.0

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Really nice and interesting memoir. I'm not very familiar with the Quran itself, so I learned a lot about that throughout, which was interesting. There are a lot of parts of this memoir that won't ever fully make sense to me because I'm not religious or entrenched in religious culture, and there were several of those parts that honestly frustrated me (which is not a actually a negative). But I found that, even though this story is not relatable to me in the macro, in the micro I was reading extremely specific experiences I've had through the life of someone else. There are so many small things that I saw in here that I never imagined I would see represented so closely to how I experienced them. And that's one of the most interesting experiences to have when reading a memoir, so I enjoyed it even just for that strangeness. I would recommend it.