The Study Circle — A Meditation on Growing up Muslim in Britain

“And there was no safe place, the baying of the outside world had collapsed the walls between public and private. Everything living outside, lived within.”

Sometimes a book comes along that’s so vivid in its portrayal of the world, that it both opens your eyes, and draws your attention uncomfortably to the gaping void it’s filling. By the second chapter of Haroun Khan’s masterful debut from DeadInk Books, I was painfully…