I feel like this book was well done. I liked that this is an 'own voices' book, and I feel like I learned about a culture that I didn't know much about before.

All that said, I can't say that I necessarily 'enjoyed' this book. The story itself is very heavy. Nazia is hard to root for at times. She continually makes excuses for the awful things the people around her do, especially her father. I know that this can be directly attributed to the way she was raised and her cultural surroundings, but it's hard to read. As someone who has never experienced that kind of cultural oppression, I had a hard time relating to her.

All in all, this was an eye-opening story for me and I'm glad that I read it, but it was a hard book for me to say I love.