{"product_id":"b003xvyz9a","title":"The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this satisfying, lyrical memoir, an American woman discovers her true faith—and true love—by converting to Islam and moving to Egypt ( Publishers Weekly ).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRaised in Boulder, Colorado, G. Willow Wilson moved to Egypt and converted to Islam shortly after college. Having written extensively on modern religion and the Middle East in publications such as  The Atlantic Monthly  and  The New York Times Magazine , Wilson now shares her remarkable story of finding faith, falling in love, and marrying into a traditional Islamic family in this intelligently written and passionately rendered memoir ( The Seattle Times , 27 Best Books of 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite her atheist upbringing, Willow always felt a connection to god. Around the time of 9\/11, she took an Islamic Studies course at Boston University, and found the teachings of the Quran astounding, comforting, and profoundly transformative. She decided to risk everything to convert to Islam, embarking on a journey across continents and into an uncertain future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSettling in Cairo where she taught English, she soon met and fell in love with Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow—with her shock of red hair, shaky Arabic, and Western candor—struggled to forge a third culture that might accommodate her values as well as her friends and family on both sides of the divide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart travelogue, love story, and memoir, Wilson has written one of the most beautiful and believable narratives about finding closeness with God ( The Denver Post ).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924740767989,"sku":"YSL53928","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/71ddAPHJoML._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673625","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b003xvyz9a","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}