Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah - ISBN: 9781760986568
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Veiled teen navigates identity, friendship, and faith in modern Australia.

Does My Head Look Big in This?

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  • Paperback

    348 pages

  • Release Date

    25 May 2021

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Summary

The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: ‘What is your confession, my child?’

I was stuffed. The priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call me a traitor …

The priest asked me again: ‘What is your confession, my child?’ ‘I’m Muslim,’ I whispered.

Welcome to my world. I’m Amal Abdel-Hakim, a sixteen-year-old Australian-Palestinian-Muslim still getting to grips with my various identity hyphens.

It’s hard enough to be cool as a teenager, but…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760986568
ISBN-10:1760986569
Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah
Publisher:Pan Macmillan Australia
Imprint:Pan Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:348
Release Date:25 May 2021
Weight:272g
Dimensions:23mm x 199mm x 129mm
About The Author

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Randa is an award-winning author, former lawyer, regular media commentator and post-doctoral research fellow researching the generational impact of the war on terror. Randa is currently working on the film adaptation of her first novel, Does My Head Look Big in This? and is keen to use her intervention into popular culture to reshape dominant narratives around racism and multiculturalism. Randa has written eight other books, including Ten Things I Hate About Me, Where the Streets Had a Name, Noah’s Law and No Sex in the City, and co-edited the anthology Arab, Australian, Other. She lives in Sydney with her husband and children.

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