EAN: 9781982191818

TEMPLE FOLK - AALIYAH BILAL GEBUNDEN

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction A groundbreaking debut collection
portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith  family  and freedom in
America. In Temple Folk  Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race  religion 
economics  politics  and sexuality in America. The ten stories in this collection contribute to
the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a
community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire
to while functioning within the country in which they are born. In Due North  an obedient
daughter struggles to understand why she's haunted by the spirit of her recently deceased
father. In Who's Down? a father  after a brief affair with vegetarianism  conspires with his
daughter to order him a double cheeseburger. In Candy for Hanif a mother's routine trip to the
store for her disabled son takes an unlikely turn when she reflects on a near-death experience.
In Woman in Niqab  a daughter's suspicion of her father's infidelity prompts her to wear her
hair in public. In New Mexico  a federal agent tasked with spying on a high-ranking member of
the Nation of Islam grapples with his responsibilities closer to home. With an unflinching eye
for the contradictions between what these characters profess to believe and what they do 
Temple Folk accomplishes the rare feat of presenting moral failures with compassion  nuance 
and humor to remind us that while perfection is what many of us strive for  it's the errors
that make us human.

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