In the spirit of Amy Tan’s international bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, Mirrors and Mirages is an intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters. In Mirrors and Mirages,
Monia Mazigh lets us into the lives of six women. They are immigrant
mothers — Emma, Samia, and Fauzia — guardians of tradition who want
their daughters to enjoy freedom in Western society. They are daughters —
Lama, Sally, and Louise, a young woman who converted to Islam for love —
university students who are clever and computer savvy. They decide for
themselves whether or not to wear a veil, or niqab. Gradually, these
women cross paths, and, without losing their authenticity, they become
friends and rivals, mirrors and mirages of each other.
Fred A.
Reed is a journalist and award-winning literary translator. He has won
the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation three times and
his translations include Monia Mazigh’s memoir Hope and Despair. He lives in Montreal.
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