Amani Al-Khatahtbeh’s Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age blends memoir, cultural criticism, and political reflection to trace what it meant to grow up Muslim in post-9/11 America while constantly being spoken about by people unwilling to listen.

Beginning as a blog founded by Al-Khatahtbeh as a teenager, Muslim Girl became one of the most visible platforms for young Muslim women navigating surveillance, misogyny, racism, media distortion, and identity online.

What keeps the book engaging is its refusal to flatten itself into either inspirational memoir or explanatory politics text. Al-Khatahtbeh writes with humour, frustration, sharpness, and the internet-native awareness of someone who came of age during the collapse of public/private boundaries online. It sits as much within digital culture history as contemporary memoir.

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition, 2016. Second printing. Clean and solid throughout with minor handling wear and light marking to dust jacket. A very good copy overall.