Growing Up Muslim

"Growing Up Muslim is a candid portrayal that goes beyond abstract cliches of the 'good' educated and secular Muslims versus the undereducated, `bad’ religious believers. The stories offer insight into the challenges Muslims face as well as the comfort they derive from their religion. Muslims and non-Muslims alike will benefit greatly from this work." -- Geneive Abdo, author of Mecca and Main Street
"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Growing Up Muslim. The essays are well written, deeply reflective, and complementary to each other. Their consistency of quality, subject matter, and flow allows the reader to easily observe the salient variations across each person, resulting in a highly humanistic collection of portraits of young adult Muslims living, some only for a time, in North America." -- Louise Cainkar, Marquette University, author of Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11
"In this beautifully edited collection, veteran scholars of youth autobiography Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny empower young American Muslims to narrate their own lives in the midst of the cacophonous discourse surrounding Islam in America today. They introduce readers to the diverse experiences and religious understandings of immigrant Muslims and invite us to look at American multiculturalism anew through their struggles, hopes, and accomplishments." -- Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College, author of A History of Islam in America