A review by heidihaverkamp
The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Sophia Al-Maria

3.0

A memoir of growing up in Puyallup WA, Qatar, and Cairo. In some ways, this is just a book about being an angry teenage girl! But set in Arab post-modern culture: tents, abayas, Nintendo, goat poop, concrete high rises, satellites, locusts stained pink with pesticides, sexual harassment, sex segregation. Also about what it's like to have two homes and two families, one Bedouin, one white American. A quick and relatively easy read, with a vivid window into contemporary Arab life (although reading about her college life on Tahrir Square makes me sad, with all the violence there right now.)