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The Writing on My Forehead

Free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American Saira Qader rejected the constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a journalist, but when tragedy strikes five years later Saira looks to the stories of those who came before—her grandparents, a beloved aunt, her mother and father—and discovers that choice is not always our own, and that faith is not just an intellectual preference.

Subject
travelhistory
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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