Late last year, a friend told me I should check out a book called ‘The Size of a Mustard Seed.’  I finally had time to read it and think it’s worth recommending.

The story is of a young Muslim sister named Jameelah Salih.  As the novel begins, she finds herself engaged to a well established, older Imam she is not completely in love with.  Told over the course of the month of Ramadan, the arc of the story is if she should marry this established man who she has reservations about, or should she keep the faith that there is a man out there who she will genuine excitement about starting a family with.

While the story takes place exclusively inside an American Muslim community in New England (and there  is a value in getting a point of view you rarely see or hear), the major themes of the book: family, love, career; all completely universal.

Good read.