A searingly honest memoir of one young woman\'s journey toward self-acceptanceas she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses tolive her life unapologetically.
In Unashamed, Vernon takes to task the myth of the perfect Muslim woman with frank dispatches on her love-hate relationship with her hijab and her faith, race, weight, mental health, domesti.
They certainly didn\'t have secret abortions.
They didn\'t have husbands who abused and cheated on them.
They didn\'t have fat bodies or grow up wishing they could be like the white characters they saw on TV.
They didn\'t have a missing father or a mother with a mental disability.
Good Muslim girls listened more than they spoke.
There wasn\'t any room for imperfection.
Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to believe and how to act.
A searingly honest memoir of one young woman\'s journey toward self-acceptance as she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses to live her life unapologetically.
Irreverent, youthful, and funny, Unashamed gives anyone who is marginalized permission to live unapologetic, confident lives.
Tired of the constant policing of her clothing in the name of Islam and Western beauty standards, Vernon reflects on her experiences with hustling paycheck to paycheck, body-shaming, and redefining what it means to be a good Muslim.
She opens up about her tumultuous adolescence living at the poverty line with her fiercely loving but troubled mother, her deadbeat dad, and her siblings, and the violent dissolution of her 10-year marriage.
In Unashamed, Vernon takes to task the myth of the perfect Muslim woman with frank dispatches on her love-hate relationship with her hijab and her faith, race, weight, mental illness, domestic violence, sexuality, the millennial world of dating, and the process of finding her voice.
They certainly didn\'t have secret abortions.
They didn\'t have husbands who abused and cheated on them.
They didn\'t have fat bodies or grow up wishing they could be like the white characters they saw on TV.
They didn\'t have a missing father or a mother with mental illness.
Good Muslim girls listened more than they spoke.
There wasn\'t any room for imperfection.
Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to believe and how to act.
A searingly honest memoir of one young woman\'s journey toward self-acceptance as she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses to live her life unapologetically.
A searingly honest memoir of one young woman\'s journey toward self-acceptanceas she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses tolive her life unapologetically
