Instead, Lamya embarks on a much more ambitious project. Here we find an author diffusing the simple chronology of life events that often keeps the format of the memoir confined to simplicity and linearity. The story structure resists simple categorization and this is one of the book’s most vital strengths. Taking its cue from Leslie Feinberg’s historic 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues, Lamya H’s debut memoir Hijab Butch Blues orients the emotional and political development of a genderqueer youth as they leave their South Asian birthplace with their family to go live in a rich Arab gulf country and then, much later, relocate to the United States to pursue an education.
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