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A review by typedtruths
Sunburnt Veils by Sara Haghdoosti
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Islamophobia
Moderate: Lesbophobia, Outing, Abandonment
Minor: Death, Drug use, Grief, Alcohol
➸ Trigger warnings for Islamophobia (theme), racism, lesbomisia, hate crime, parental abandonment and neglect, disownment, coming out scenes, accidental public outing, alcohol consumption, recreational drug use, hospitalisation, grief and loss depiction, death of a grandmother from a heart attack recounted, physical assault, and hazing.
Context: The protagonist has someone call the police on her for leaving her backpack in a lecture (as a bomb threat). Later, she is filmed having her hijab ripped off from someone completely a hazing dare. She experiences overt racism and Islamophobia at university. She ends up in the hospital as the man physically assaulted her when she tried to get her hijab back. Her father abandoned her and her mother as a child and later disowned her for wearing a hijab. Tara's best friend is disowned by her parents for coming out as a lesbian. She is outed when a photograph of her kissing her girlfriend goes viral.