{"id":46532,"date":"2020-03-03T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46532"},"modified":"2020-03-03T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:29:46","slug":"all-american-muslim-girl-by-nadine-jolie-courtney-in-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/all-american-muslim-girl-by-nadine-jolie-courtney-in-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney [in School Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46538\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/All-Amerian-Muslim-Girl-Naidne-Jolie-Courtney-BookDragon-521x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/All-Amerian-Muslim-Girl-Naidne-Jolie-Courtney-BookDragon-521x800.jpg 521w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/All-Amerian-Muslim-Girl-Naidne-Jolie-Courtney-BookDragon.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/>For Allie Abraham, &#8220;hiding is easy: reddish-blond hair, pale skin, hazel eyes,&#8221; in other words \u2013 white. That she looks &#8220;textbook Circassian\u2026from the Caucasus region. (Hey, they don&#8217;t call it Caucasian for nothing),&#8221; is her ethnic inheritance from her immigrant Circassian Jordanian history professor father. He&#8217;s Muslim, as is her mother, an American psychologist who converted when they married, but they raised Allie without religion.<\/p>\n<p>After multiple moves, the family finally seems settled in Providence, just north of Atlanta, and Allie appears content to be an all-American girl who might even be ready for her first romance. But as Islamophobia \u2013 from microaggressions to vitriolic racism \u2013 expands, Allie&#8217;s reaction is to eschew passing and actively pursue the cultural, linguistic, and religious heritage she feels she missed.<\/p>\n<p>Perennially youthfully voiced Priya Ayyar embodies Allie&#8217;s journey with empathic insight, from quiet frustration to careful confrontations, from calm devotion to vocal confidence. She&#8217;s as affecting with Allie&#8217;s detractors, from ignorant strangers to unexpected opponents \u2013 including her new boyfriend&#8217;s father who turns out to be a bigot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> Versatile narrator Ayyar adroitly amplifies an already resonant novel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2020-03-01-5132954.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Audio,&#8221; <em>School Library Journal<\/em>, March 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong> 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Allie Abraham, &#8220;hiding is easy: reddish-blond hair, pale skin, hazel eyes,&#8221; in other words \u2013 white. That she looks &#8220;textbook Circassian\u2026from the Caucasus region. (Hey, they don&#8217;t call it Caucasian for nothing),&#8221; is her ethnic inheritance from her immigrant Circassian Jordanian history professor father&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,6,197,8953,6535,31],"tags":[8954,83,6608,58,59,10,11,51,25,13,145,8955,39,6104,55,6704],"class_list":["post-46532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-fiction","category-hapa","category-jordanian-american","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-all-american-muslim-girl","tag-assimilation","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-love","tag-mixed-race-issues","tag-nadine-jolie-courtney","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-priya-ayyar","tag-religious-differences","tag-school-library-journal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney [in School Library Journal] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/all-american-muslim-girl-by-nadine-jolie-courtney-in-library-journal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney [in School Library Journal] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For Allie Abraham, &#8220;hiding is easy: reddish-blond hair, pale skin, hazel eyes,&#8221; in other words \u2013 white. 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