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A review by mjbirdy
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write by Sabrina Mahfouz
3.0
This was a book I really wanted to like and honestly there were some really beautiful poems that I did really enjoy. It’s also quite beautifully put together. My only really gripe is that I felt like a fair bit of it was the fluffy kind of ‘artistic’ that doesn’t make any sense but puts the onus on the audience to find meaning in something that means nothing... if that makes sense.
I recognise as well though that I might just not understand because it is not my context, I am not a Muslim and while I feel very connected as a person of faith, a woman of colour, a diasporic child of immigrants who grew up surrounded by a diverse community of Muslims, I am not the audience the central voice of this body of work is representative of. All that to say it might not be fluffy at all it just might seem that way to me because I don’t get it
I recognise as well though that I might just not understand because it is not my context, I am not a Muslim and while I feel very connected as a person of faith, a woman of colour, a diasporic child of immigrants who grew up surrounded by a diverse community of Muslims, I am not the audience the central voice of this body of work is representative of. All that to say it might not be fluffy at all it just might seem that way to me because I don’t get it