{"product_id":"the-butterfly-mosque","title":"The Butterfly Mosque","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Butterfly Mosque\u003c\/i\u003e, journalist G. Willow Wilson's remarkable story of converting to Islam and falling in love with an Egyptian man in a volatile post-9\/11 world, was praised as \"an eye-opening look at a misunderstood and often polarizing faith\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"a tremendously heartfelt, healing crosscultural fusion\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by her experience during a college Islamic Studies course, Wilson, who was raised an atheist, decides to risk everything to convert to Islam and embark on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future. She settles in Cairo, where she attempts to submerge herself in a culture based on her adopted religion and where she meets Omar, a man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. They begin a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Wilson records her intensely personal struggle to forge a \"third culture\" that might accommodate her values without compromising them or the friends and family on both sides of the divide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50010366345466,"sku":"9780802145338","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_e4ae596b-4df9-4dc5-92c2-9d4beb698a2f.jpg?v=1786131127","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/the-butterfly-mosque","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}