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Starred Review on April 1, 2017 | Fiction
Khair, whose earlier novel The Thing About Thugs was short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, tackles the troubling but timely development in Europe and North America: radicalizing and recruiting young people to fight for the Islamic State. Told from the perspective of Jamilla, a young British Muslim, the novel probes the motivations for why Jamilla and her ch...Log In or Sign Up to Read More