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Now with a brand-new chapter about Zarqa's experiences as an advice columnist who can't take her own advice
A national bestseller and A Chatelaine Book Club Pick of the Month for August 2014,Laughing All the Way to the Mosqueis a hilarious memoir about growing up Muslim in a household where, according to Zarqa's father, the Quran says it's okay to eat at McDonald's-but only if you order the McFish.
Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She's just as likely to be agonizing over which earrings will "pimp out" her hijab as to be flirting with the Walmart meat manager in a futile attempt to secure halal chicken the day before Eid.Little Mosque on the Prairiebrought Zarqa's own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world, and now inLaughing All the Way to the Mosque, she tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging stories of being Zarqa in a western society. From explaining to the plumber why the toilet must be within arm's reach of the tap (hint: it involves a watering can and the Muslim obsession with cleanliness "down there") to refusing to use an outhouse for fear of jinn possession, Zarqa paints an eye-opening-and often eye-rolling-portrait of a proud (if slighlty neurotic) Muslim woman.
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Being a practicing Muslim in the West is sometimes challenging, sometimes rewarding and sometimes downright absurd. How do you explain why Eid never falls on the same date each year; why it is that Halal butchers also sell teapots and alarm clocks; how do you make clear to the plumber that it's essential the toilet is installed within sitting-arm's reach of the tap? Zarqa Nawaz has seen and done it all. And it's not always easy to get things right with the community either: Zarqa tells of being asked to leave the DBW (Dead Body Washing) committee after making unsuitable remarks; of undertaking the momentous trip to Mecca with her husband, without the children, thinking (most incorrectly) that it will also be a nice time to have uninterrupted sex; of doing the unthinkable, and creating Little Mosque on the Prairie, a successful TV sitcom about that very (horrified, then proud) community. You have to laugh.
About the Author:
ZARQA NAWAZcreatedLittle Mosque on the Prairie. Premiering on the CBC in 2007, it ran for six seasons, was watched in over sixty countries and landed Nawaz in the public eye. When not writing, producing or directing for the show, she has spent much of the past six years writing comedy pilots for ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX, and touring the world as a sought-after public speaker. She has been interviewed or profiled by CNN, the BBC,The New York Timesand Aljazeera. A contributor to CBC'sDNTO, Zarqa Nawaz lives in Regina with her loving but long-suffering family.
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- PublisherVirago Press Ltd
- ISBN 10 0349005958
- ISBN 13 9780349005959
- BindingPaperback
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