We Are a Muslim, Please
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
For Zaiba Malik, growing up in Bradford in the '70s and '80s certainly has its moments - staying up all night during Ramadan with her father; watching mad Mr Aziz searching for his goat during Eid; dancing along to Top of the Pops (so long as no-one's watching). And, of course, there's her mother - whether she's writing another ingratiating letter to the Queen or repeatedly referring to Tom Jones as 'Thumb Jone'.
But Zaiba's story is also one of anxiety and seemingly irreconcilable opposites. Growing up she is constantly torn between two identities: 'British' and 'Muslim'. Alienated at school and confused at home, the racism she encounters as a child mirrors the horrors she experiences at the hands of Bangladeshi interrogators
as a journalist years later.
We Are A Muslim, Please is a stirring and enchanting memoir. We see, through Zaiba's childhood eyes, the poignancy of growing up in a world whose prejudices, contradictions and ambiguities are at once distressing and utterly captivating.
Customer Reviews
We Are A Muslim Please
I first saw the book in an Asian newspaper, and I knew I had to read it. On purchasing the book, and getting half way through my excitement differed, it's a great story to begin with, but once your half way throughout it, the excitement drains. For me the writer was too possessive as I was eager to know more of her life at present, but she refrains. If you really want to know a girls childhood drama while growing up in Bradford, then go for it! Or better save your money and read an actual biography where the writer actually opens up.