Painted Hands : A Novel

from whitreidtan

What do you know of Islam? Specifically, what do you know about young Muslim women in the United States? Do you picture them only as conservative women covered by burkas or do you see them as modern and varied as young women of other faiths? Mostly the media chooses to show us examples of only th...

from DoingDewey

Zainab Mir is already pushing against cultural expectations by working for a Republican senator and things only get more complicated as she befriends a gay reporter; is featured in a suggestive magazine article; and falls for a Muslim-bashing member of the opposition. Amra Abbas also has a high p...

from sunshine608

This was a great book that I couldn't put down. The characters ( most of them) felt like they were my friends and I just couldn't wait to follow their story some more. The only character I struggled with was Hayden. At first she felt like an afterthought and some of her plot felt unreal, but then...

from Nancyjcbs

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and my only area of disappointment is that I've finished it. It was a story of friends - Zainab and Amra are life long friends who attended Smith together and are now in high powered careers in Boston. It is also a story of relationships, love and motherhood. But i...

from Nancyjcbs

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and my only area of disappointment is that I've finished it. It was a story of friends - Zainab and Amra are life long friends who attended Smith together and are now in high powered careers in Boston. It is also a story of relationships, love and motherhood. But i...