The trinitarianism of Christianity didn't appeal to her she found much to like about Judaism, but perceived it as a religion into which one really needs to be born, rather than to convert. And she became conscious of the fact that although she had been reared in a nominally Protestant but basically secular home, she couldn't help believing in God. It gave her an opportunity to ask big questions about her life. Wilson is an American Muslim who now divides her time between the US and Cairo (read her standard bio here.) In college she became mysteriously ill (I know what that's like - though my illness came in my early 30s, not my 20s) and the illness slowed her down. (That link goes to the paperback edition, which isn't yet out when my friend Cate, who'd read the book in hardcover, recommended it to me I picked it up for Kindle. Willow Wilson (along with Barry Deutsch's Hereville.) I'm here today to sing the praises of Wilson's latest work of nonfiction / memoir: The Butterfly Mosque. A while back I reviewed a graphic novel caled Cairo by G.
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