From the title’s oxymoron onwards, it is clear that Maria Chaudhuri’s memoir will be built around contradictions. Islam versus Christianity is a background note, but the major theme is East versus West — specifically, Chaudhuri’s native Bangladesh set against America, where she attended university and later lived and worked. Religion, sexuality, dreams and second chances at love are all facets of the author’s search for a sense of home and family in a life of shifting loyalties.

(Full reviewin October 2015 issue of Wasafiri literary magazine.)