What does it feel like to be Muslim in post-9/11 America? In these excerpts from her deeply personal and passionate memoir, Amsa Gull Hasan rewrites stereotypes and finds a home in the home of the brave.
Asma Gull Hasan was born in Chicago to Pakistani immigrant parents and grew up in Colorado. As a Glamour magazine blogger, contributor to the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Denver Post, and the author of the acclaimed books American Muslims and Why I Am a Muslim, she is widely recognized as an articulate and persuasive Islamic American voice.