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Anya Berezko _nna_erezko — Halal Pork is an immersion experience, a millenial, "ethno-punk," pre/post 9/11 acid trip (make that mushrooms)identity (what did you say your name was?) mash-up. At times brilliant, at others a bit much (excess can cede to tedium). Since I was mostly "off-the-grid" during the 80s and 90s, many of the urban pop/punk cultural references go right by me. On the other hand, "the horror, the horror" quote from Heart of Darkness winks so obstreperously that even a reading-recluse should have no trouble parsing these stories by the contrails of their post-postcolonial shrieks and shreds.

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Enatan Rnandez enatanhern718f — Amal is a typical teenager. She’s interested in hanging out with her friends, clothes and boys. She just also happens to be religious. Before the start of her next school term, she makes the decision to wear the hijab, something which will make her inner convictions much more outwardly evident. This decision is not something she takes lightly. In fact, it’s infused with all the melodrama you might expect from a teenager, plus a thorough (if slightly irrational) pro-con list. In the end, Amal is proud of her decision even though it is not always an easy one. Amal feels and sounds like a teenager. Sometimes she is just babbling away at full blast about anything and everything. She is at times self-centered and entitled, making decisions based entirely on what she wants, without really considering the feelings of others. And she most certainly embraces drama. She and her friends over-analyze every look, every word, from the boys like like. They go on and on about diet and weight and make-up and clothes. Reading this as an adult, I was sometimes a bit exasperated with her. I felt particularly old when I got annoyed with her! I suspect many teens will get along with her famously. And despite Amal’s interests in what might seem like shallow or superficial things, she and her friends have more serious conversations as well. They discuss religion and how culture and heritage are sometimes intertwined with religion. They talk about their families and the expectations that are placed upon them. They are strong and bold and often stand up for themselves and their friends. It maybe shouldn’t be a surprise that for the most part, they also have interested and involved parents. Amal has several Muslim friends, which allows for there to be diversity in how each family celebrates their faith. I’ve read some concerns people have about the depiction of various characters in this book. Some have said that Amal never would have allowed herself to even be alone with a boy, or attend a party where alcohol was present. Others took issue with Leila’s super strict mother who is trying to marry her off at the tender age of 16. It seems like one of main issues people have with this book is whether or not the portrayals of Muslims is realistic. I don’t know that Amal or Leila or Yasmeen or Samantha are typical, they are just themselves. With 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, there are bound to be an innumerable amount of ways to be a Muslim. The other concern seems to be that readers might have a negative impression of Islam, especially in reading about Leila’s family situation. But I think Abdel-Fattah, through the girls’ conversations about their lives manages to do an excellent job of untangling the religious from the cultural. These teens, for all of their interests in superficial things, are thinkers. And they talk about the things that are important to them, which includes their family and their faith. These discussions make it clear how different someone’s upbringing and culture can be from the actual tenets of a religion. The truth is, I enjoyed this a lot more when I read it the first time, years ago. I feel like my own age and distance from the inherent angst of the teen years made it slightly less enjoyable for me on this reading. I still was impressed with Amal and her ability to grow and change as the book progressed. Age Recommendation: Grades 8+. This book raises some tricky topics like repeated miscarriage and infertility as well as female circumcision in Africa. Therefore, I’d recommend it only for readers who were of an age to read about and discuss these topics. Weight and Dieting: This is huge in this book, particularly surrounding Amal’s friend Simone and Amal’s mother. There is a lot of talk of diets and dieting. It’s honest, lots of teens and women do talk about their weight a lot. But it almost made me uncomfortable at times. One of her best friends is a size 14 but always on a diet, including a binge/purge cycle, later she says she tried bulimia but can’t throw up. She wishes she had the discipline to be anorexic. This is reported nearly as a joke. Amal jokes with her friend about weight in a way that seemed a bit mean-spirited although it is clear it wasn’t meant that way. Simone’s mother is also always trying to get her to work out. Another girl complains of being fat even though she’s not, just to get attention. A woman asks her husband if her butt looks big. For full review including any potentially objectionable content, see my blog review: http://bit.ly/1Gz8kPt