“Baker not only makes us care about this disturbed woman and her hectoring prose, she has succeeded in composing a mesmerizing book on one of the more curious East-West encounters. She proves once again how a marginal case can be an illuminating way into vast and much disputed subjects, in this instance the meeting of West and East and the role of women under orthodox Islam.”
Deborah Baker’s The Convert, which was the Rumpus Book Club’s April selection, gets one hell of a review in the New York Times.
You can read our interview with Baker here.
