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In this acclaimed anthology about tweens celebrating Muslim holidays, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow has contributed a short story and poem. Paperback.

“Perfect,” by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, is about Hawa, a half-African American, half-Guinean/Mandinka girl, failing to be “perfect” when visiting her West African relatives in the Bronx for Eid.

“Eid Pictures,” is a poem tracing the history of Black American Muslim Eid celebrations in the U.S.

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