I adored this book. It's an immigrant story, a woman's personal tale of discovery, a queer biography, a woman's religious experience story, so many interesting things and I wanted to know this person from the book's description alone. I don't know much about the Muslim religion. I grew up in a country where my other closest religion was Hinduism. While I knew some stories from Muslim tradition since Islam was the popular third religion in my country I had no Muslim relatives like I did Hindu relatives and there were no television shows about the Muslim religion while I watched The Ramayana and The Mahabharat on television. Lamya is a young woman growing up in a strict Muslim country where her mother is not allowed to drive, and the lives of women are severely restrictive, she is inquisitive, a bit of a tomboy, class clown and discovering that she's attracted to women. This will not work for her within her society and when she gets an opportunity to come to the United States as a student her being Muslim, living a life where she takes her religion seriously and embraces it as part of her identity, the conflicts that arise because she's a lesbian and finding spaces where she can be feminist, Muslim, a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, her status as an immigrant there is so much intersectionality here. I had never read a book like this one and am happy that I did because there is so much richness in learning about other people's experiences and it really made me want to read the Quran because there's so much beauty in the way the stories from the Quran are written about I just might give it a read.