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The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

by G. Willow Wilson

Atlantic Monthly. 2010. 320p. ISBN 9780802118875. $24.

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A mystical memoir of a young woman's call to Islam, journey to Cairo, and embrace of the culture she finds there. An unusual perspective, although some readers may wish that she spoke more directly to women's issues.

Reviewed by Victoria Caplinger , May 01, 2014

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