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In her debut young adult novel,
No True Believers, Rabiah York Lumbard draws from personal experience as an American Muslim, both in the United States and abroad, to weave together a story addressing issues of Islamophobia and white supremacy.
No True Believers opens with Salma Bakkioui bidding farewell to her friend Mariam, whose family is forced to leave the country when her dad’s patients no longer want a Muslim chiropractor. Not long after, a terrorist bombing in Washington, D.C. makes Salma the target of rising hostility as one of the few Muslims in her community.
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