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Jun 2023, 336 pages
Paperback:
May 2023, 336 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Abby Edgecumbe
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Between Two Moons opens on the first morning of Ramadan. Twin sisters Amira and Lina are sleeping soundly when their father cries, "Wake up, ya binti." While Lina attempts to continue sleeping, he ushers Amira's attention across the street, where the police are raiding a Libyan cafe and arresting its owner, Abu Jamal. This incident plunges Amira, and by extension Lina, into social and political awareness. It also sets a tone that underscores the novel as a whole, conveying a looming sense of being observed and a constant fear that for Muslims living in a post-9/11 America, nowhere is safe from watchful, hateful eyes.
The story takes place in Bay Ridge, a Brooklyn neighborhood and immigrant enclave consisting of Arab American families, stores, mosques and community centers. The girls' father, Kareem Emam, runs the local market, and their family is well-settled in the area. Amira and ...
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