‘The Royal Abduls’ presents a Muslim American perspective on our post-9/11 world By: Amy Wang Ramiza Shamoun Koya used to feel invisible as a Muslim American. Then the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks happened. “As a Muslim, your life just […]
Willamette Week Review
Ramiza Shamoun Koya’s The Royal Abduls is an American novel in the way Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Toni Morrison’s Beloved is an American novel. Writers have long taken to fiction to lay out the country’s social woes on an operating table, building characters […]
Publisher’s Weekly Review
3/12/2020 Koya’s accomplished debut examines Indian-American identity and bigotry against a Muslim family after 9/11. In 2005, newly arrived in Washington, D.C., to start postdoc research on wild silk moths, Amina Abdul tries to help her brother Mohammed deal with […]