New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims Tots_Gift_Guide Elya is the lad with

Elya is the lad with the vision

so you can actually sit down and spend time with your loved ones

and grumpy

and a mango-besotted crow

I realize on our first night of attempting this baby-making dance-when the lights are low

New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims Tots_Gift_Guide Elya is the lad withFrom the Introduction: The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions of Islam, as well as a full range of genrespoetry, fiction, essay, memoir, political writing, cultural writing, and of course plenty of texts which mix and match and blur all of these modes . . . the trajectories between the pieceslike that of kismetwill be multiple, nonlinear, abstract. The Muslim community is plural and contradictory. This