Cover of The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

by Mohja Kahf

2006 448 pages eng

Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault-lin…

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