02731cam a2200457 i 4500 1859133054 TxAuBib 20250116120000.0 240424s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023549106 9780593448786 PAP 20.00 0593448782 PAP 20.00 YDX eng rda YDX OCLCO OCLCQ YDX OCLCO BDX ICK DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib rda H, Lamya, author. Hijab butch blues : a memoir / Lamya H. 2024 Dial Press trade paperback edition. New York : The Dial Press, 2024. x, 310 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: 2023. Book club guide included. Preface -- Part I -- Maryam -- Jinn -- Allah -- Part II -- Musa -- Muhammad -- Asiyah -- Part III -- Nuh -- Yusuf -- Hajar -- Yunus -- A book club guide. "Fourteen years old and growing up in the Middle East, Lamya is an overachiever and a class clown, qualities that help her hide in plain sight when she realizes she has a crush on her teacher--her female teacher. She's also fourteen when she reads a passage in Quran class about Maryam, known as the Virgin Mary in the Christian Bible, that changes everything. Lamya learns that Maryam was untempted by an angelically handsome man, and later, when told she is pregnant, insists no man has touched her. Could Maryam be... like Lamya? Spanning childhood to an elite college in the US and early adult life in New York City, each essay places Lamya's struggles and triumphs in the context of some of the most famous stories in the Quran. She juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the Pharaoh; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing strength from the faith and hope of Nuh building his ark, begins to build a life of her own--all the while discoveringthat her identity as a queer, immigrant devout Muslim is, in fact, the answer to her quest for safety and belonging"-- Provided by publisher. H, Lamya. Muslim lesbians United States Biography. Muslim lesbians. Lesbians Biography. Lesbians. Muslim girls Biography. Muslim girls. Lesbiennes musulmanes États-Unis Biographies. Lesbiennes Biographies. Filles musulmanes Biographies. Lesbians of color. United States. Autobiographies (literary works.) Autobiographies. Biographies. RV8