WCPL Reviews

This novel is set in old Muslim culture in which women have no rights and no right to question the world around them or their situation simply due to the fact that they are female.

 

The Islamic Quran teaches that the father is the head of the household, but the mother is stronger as she is expected to carry…

This memoir in the same vein as "The Glass Castle" is about a woman who struggled out of a terrible childhood to live a successful life, but ends being drawn back into her past, not by her own choice, but by her mother.  She tries to deal with all of the feelings that revisiting her past brings up and also tries unsuccessfully to hold her mother accountable.