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- Sweetness in the Belly Camilla Gibb 3.91 9,343 ratings737 reviews Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam.
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Mar 29, 2005 · 9,343 ratings737 reviews. Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco.
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Book Summary. An evocative and richly imagined story of a British Muslim woman's search for love and belonging in two very different worlds. When Lilly is eight years old, her pot-smoking hippie British parents leave her at a Sufi shrine in Morocco and inform her they will be back to collect her in three days.
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Mar 20, 2006 · A white Muslim woman's affecting spiritual and emotional quests, as a misfit in two cultures. Gibb ( Mouthing the Words, 2001, etc.) immerses herself completely in her gravely empathetic narration of the unusual life of Lilly, daughter of hippies murdered in Morocco, leaving her orphaned, aged eight, in the care of distinguished Muslim ...
- Kirkus Reviews
A richly imagined narrative of one woman's search for love and belonging cast against a nuanced portrait of political upheaval. In the racially-charged world of Thatcher’s London, Lilly, a young, white, Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile.
Mar 27, 2007 · Sweetness in the Belly was universally praised for the tremendous empathy that Gibb brings to an ambitious story. Kirkus Reviews writes that the novel "reflect(s) the pain, cultural relocation and uncertainty of tribal, political and religious refugees the world over.
Mar 27, 2007 · Based on your reading of Sweetness in the Belly, what feelings and psychological states are associated with the experience of exile? How do Amina and Yusuf, for example, cope with their respective traumas?
Mar 27, 2007 · A psychologically complex and utterly convincing story, alive with political insight and sensuous detail, Sweetness in the Belly is a mesmerizing work from one of Canada's most distinctive and exciting voices.
- Camilla Gibb
