Shatter me
Tahereh Mafi
It’s 2003. It’s been several months since the US officially declared war on Iraq, and the political world has evolved. Shadi hears the fights after services, the arguments between families about what it means to be Muslim, about what they should be doing and saying as a community but she does not engage. She’s too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the time to deal with bigots.