The Butterfly Mosque
A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
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The Butterfly Mosque
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Narrated by:
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Catherine Byers
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Written by:
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G. Willow Wilson
About this listen
The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world.
When G. Willow Wilson - already an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just 27 - leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University, she enrolls in an Islamic Studies course that leads to her shocking conversion to Islam and sends her on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future.
She settles in Cairo, where she teaches English and submerges herself in a culture based on her adopted religion. And then she meets Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. They fall in love, entering into a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow records her intensely personal struggle to forge a "third culture" that might accommodate her own values without compromising the friends and family on both sides of the divide.
©2010 G. Willow Wilson. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc.What listeners say about The Butterfly Mosque
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- Merry
- 2020-05-08
I wanted more!
It was so good and I just want to know what happens next in her life.
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- Girl Jin
- 2019-01-27
Voice doesn’t match
The memoir was mind-blowing in so many ways. It made me think, then cry, then think, then think some more. The reader’s voice was too old for a 20-something narrator/character (or whatever you call the protagonist of a memoir — is it just “the writer”?) who is now still only in her mid-thirties. It actually pulled me out of my immersion into the narrative. And the Arabic pronunciation was horrific. I liked the reader’s voice and her reading style though, just not the right book for her.
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