Mona
An Immodest Memoir of Race and Rebellion
$74.08
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2026
Summary
As irreverent as it is insightful, MONA turns the repressed Muslim girl trope on its head as Azra, academic by day and stripper by night, navigates a double life and a political awakening.
Azra Liaqat Khan’s ordinary Muslim American childhood in Charlotte, North Carolina transforms after her family joins the strict Salafi sect and a new lifestyle is mandated: No more music, Bollywood films, or mixing between the sexes. Azra becomes a pro at evading her desi parents’ rules—hiding her b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798217180554 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Azra Liaqat Khan |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Tiny Reparations Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 17 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“This is an extraordinary memoir. The writing and thinking is sparkling, excoriating, and laugh-out-loud funny. Azra Liaqat Khan’s Mona will entice anyone who loves peeking into the back rooms of other people’s lives (and who doesn’t). But more importantly, it demands readers do the crucial work of understanding the broader stage upon which all of us, in some form or another, are dancing.”
—Lydia Kiesling, author of Mobility
“Bold, hilarious, and fiercely political: a Salafist to Stripper story for the ages. Wildly entertaining, deeply thoughtful and unapologetically confronting, I loved every minute I spent reading it.”
—Nussaibah Younis, author of Fundamentally
Azra Liaqat Khan
Azra Liaqat Khan is an award-winning professor, author, and labor organizer in the northeast writing under a pseudonym. She has written widely about the politics of race, immigration, and US empire.
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