Nisrin, a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002, is the victim of a hate crime when a man violently attacks her for wearing a headscarf. Deeply traumatized by the experience, Nisrin spends the summer depressed and isolated. She tells her family she's going to start wearing hijab, much to their dismay. This choice puts Nisrin on a path to not only discover more about Islam, but also her family's complicated relationship with the religion, and the reasons they left Bangladesh in the first place.
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