Listen to Morning Edition’s interview with Mojha Khaf, author of The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, on the NPR website. The novel tells the story of “a Syrian girl transplanted to the American Midwest in the 1970s."
"After we got out of the store, we looked at each other and we said, 'Do you suppose people look at us like the way we just looked at the Amish?' And we looked at each other and said, 'Yeah, I guess that's how people look at Muslims, especially [because] we were both women who both wore hijab (the Islamic headscarf), and that was sort of a revelation.’" – from NPR interview with Mojha Khaf