It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United States in an arranged marriage that becomes a love match lasting forty years from secular Muslim in an Islamic society to devout Muslim in a society ignorant of Islam, and from liberal to conservative to American Muslim from master's candidate to bride and mother and from an immigrant intending to stay two years to an American citizen, business executive, grandmother, and tireless advocate for interfaith understanding. Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. "This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on religion and culture.
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