Girls Like Me
Asya is angry. She is furious with her parents who constantly long for a homeland they left long before Ayse was born and that they never learn the language in the country the live. She is furious with society, which interprets her hijab as terrorism. She is furious with her teacher who never pronounces her name correctly. She is angry with her sister who is married to a jerk. And she is angry with the boy she has a crush on, who is with someone who isn’t her.
Asya’s aggression is conveyed through dark humor, exaggeration, and irony – and not least self-irony.
Girls Like Me is a furious, funny, and thought-provoking story about growing up between two cultures.
