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May 03, 2019RandomLibrarian rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Nowadays, G. Willow Wilson is well-known as the co-creator and writer of Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani-Muslim-American teenager from New Jersey who is all about the pop culture geek life and saving the world. Circa 2000, Wilson was fresh out of college and trying to figure out what to do with her life, so she moved to Cairo, Egypt. While living the expat life in Egypt and navigating cultural and religious shock, she found a fiance (now husband) and his warm, loving extended family, and a new faith: Islam. What she found - and what you will read in this memoir - challenges the stereotypes that we in "the West" tend to hold regarding Muslim-majority countries and cultures. Wilson has gone on to write more comics (Cairo, Air, Vixen, Wonder Woman) and books ("Alif the Unseen", "The Bird King") where she integrates Islamic themes with contemporary or fantasy settings.