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Karim, Sheba

That Thing We Call a Heart

279 pp. | HarperTeen | May, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-244570-4 $17.99
(3) YA Shabnam, a secularized Pakistani American girl excited to go off to college, lost her friendship with Farah when Farah started wearing the hijab. The two reconnect over the summer, but Shabnam's romance with non-Muslim boy Jamie concerns Farah. Shabnam's father's love for Urdu poetry and Sufism adds further interest to this affecting coming-of-age story that realistically portrays the diversity of the U.S. Muslim community.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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