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Debut memoir. Winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Heir to the Crescent Moon tells the story of the daughter of two Black Power-era converts to Islam growing up in the shadow of that movement and grasping for connection to the faith despite her parents’ separation from both it and each other.
My boy is on the floor again. I’ve just told him he has to get in the shower, before dinner, after homework, after only five minutes of TV.
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