This book covers a lot of topics which I could relate to being a Muslim, and having been told that I don't look like a Muslim by almost everyone I have come across. The first 4-5 essays and the last 5-6 essays were very relatable and were to the point but the author somewhere down the line mostly after the first 5 essays lost track of what she was talking about and she just went on and on about culture in different countries and her experiences over there , I know the book is a collection of essays about Islam and culture but I could not relate to them, I could not understand why they were in this book they were mostly the authors experience while visiting different countries and I feel the author could have done more justice to this book by writing more of her personal experiences like on one to one level with the other individuals when they told her that she does not look like a muslim and some more things.