Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H

Hijab Butch Blues

A Memoir

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2024
Icon Books (Verlag)
978-1-78578-851-2 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart'
GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed

**Roxane Gay's Book Club March 2023 Pick**

When Lamya is fourteen, she decides to disappear.

It seems easier to ease herself out of sight than to grapple with the difficulty of taking shape in a world that doesn't fit. She is a queer teenager growing up in a Muslim household, a South Asian in a Middle Eastern country. But during her Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam, and suddenly everything shifts: if Maryam was never touched by any man, could Maryam be... like Lamya?

Written with deep intelligence and a fierce humour, Hijab Butch Blues follows Lamya as she travels to the United States, as she comes out, and as she navigates the complexities of the immigration system - and the queer dating scene. At each step, she turns to her faith to make sense of her life, weaving stories from the Quran together with her own experiences: Musa leading his people to freedom; Allah, who is neither male nor female; and Nuh, who built an ark, just as Lamya is finally able to become the architect of her own story.

Raw and unflinching, Hijab Butch Blues heralds the arrival of a truly original voice, asking powerful questions about gender and sexuality, relationships, identity and faith, and what it means to build a life of one's own.

Lamya H is a former Lambda Literary Fellow whose writing has appeared in Vice, Salon, Vox, Black Girl Dangerous, Autostraddle, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She currently lives in New York with her partner.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Duxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
ISBN-10 1-78578-851-5 / 1785788515
ISBN-13 978-1-78578-851-2 / 9781785788512
Zustand Neuware
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