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The Beauty of Your Face
The Beauty of Your Face | Sahar Mustafah
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A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut.
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AbstractMonica
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Afaf is the principal of an all girls Muslim school. One day, a shooter makes his way into the school undetected and everyone‘s world changes in the blink of an eye. The story is a series of tragic events after another, to help us understand the present moment in the novel. Having read A Woman in no Man prior to this, it helped me understand the dynamics of Afaf‘s immediate family a little bit better.
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JulieAly
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My favorite read of 2020! I could not put this down. I laughed and I ugly cried. It was incredible.

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TrishB
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Another interesting kindle offer today 👍🏻

MartinaLove I love kindle! Thought, I notice I read slowly everytime I read a book on my tablet. I don't know why. But I love all the great deals. 🥰 3y
TrishB @MartinaLove the deals are very addictive 😁 3y
MartinaLove @TrishB I agree. 😁 I check them everyday. 😂 3y
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NeedsMoreBooks
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A Palestinian- American woman, Afaf Rahman, and her navigation of a world filled with hate and cruelty. She is the principal of a Muslim all-girls‘ school in a Chicago suburb. The story focuses on two timelines: the present where Afaf is facing a school shooter, who has been radicalized by the online alt-right, and the other is a flashback of her life. Other wider questions are identity, home, cultural assimilation, xenophobia, and loss.

MoonWitch94 Sounds like a good one. I‘m adding it to my TBR. Thanks for posting a review. 3y
NeedsMoreBooks @MoonWitch94 thank you! Looking forward to your review 💖💖 3y
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BookNAround
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Starting a new one.

Jee_HookedOnBookz I love the cover!! 4y
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EliNeedsMoreShelves
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#bookreport I finished three this week - Agent 355 is a historical about a female revolutionary war spy; They Called Us Enemy a graphic memoir of George Takei's childhood experiences in Japanese internment camps i the US; and The Beauty of Your Face a story of a Palestinian woman and her family's history in the US. All very good!

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Cinfhen I‘ve been eyeing this book👉🏾glad to hear it‘s good 4y
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SoManyBooksNotEnoughTime
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I was completely engaged in this story from page 1. Sahar Mustafah writes in such a beautiful way, that's extremely readable --- if that makes sense. For a book thats not overly long, it packed such a punch. I really feel like I could have read this book forever. The content was much more than I had been expecting. I really enjoyed the way the book alternated timelines

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ReadingEnvy
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In my year of focus on books from and about the Middle East, I'm sure this won't be the last novel featuring Palestinian immigrants (it's number 2 or 3 just this year.) Afaf's parents raised her in the states and she becomes a principle at a Muslim girls school in the Midwest. ⤵️

ReadingEnvy The storyline moves between her childhood (which includes her sister's disappearance) and various points in her adult life, including an increase in devotion to her faith and going on a hajj with some of her family. A school shooting drives much of the narrative, which I found unnecessary to make me interested. 4y
Sace Oh that sounds really good. I just put it on hold. 4y
Cathythoughts Sounds good ! Stacked 4y
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