{"product_id":"the-butterfly-mosque-9780802145338","title":"The Butterfly Mosque","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Butterfly Mosque\u003c\/i\u003e, journalist G. Willow Wilson's remarkable story of converting to Islam and falling in love with an Egyptian man in a volatile post-9\/11 world, was praised as \"an eye-opening look at a misunderstood and often polarizing faith\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"a tremendously heartfelt, healing crosscultural fusion\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by her experience during a college Islamic Studies course, Wilson, who was raised an atheist, decides to risk everything to convert to Islam and embark on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future. She settles in Cairo, where she attempts to submerge herself in a culture based on her adopted religion and where she meets Omar, a man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. They begin a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Wilson records her intensely personal struggle to forge a \"third culture\" that might accommodate her values without compromising them or the friends and family on both sides of the divide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eG. Willow Wilson was born in New Jersey in 1982 and raised in Colorado. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed comics \u003ci\u003eAir\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Vixen\u003c\/i\u003e. She divides her time between Cairo and Seattle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVisit Willow's website at gwillowwilson.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662268272914,"sku":"9780802145338","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d3444c8-d380-4b47-9760-50fab03db6b5.jpg?v=1733518537","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-butterfly-mosque-9780802145338","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}