What’s wrong about asking questions and looking for answers? Ayla Işik describes her difficult path as a woman who wants to keep her faith but no longer wants to submit to her community’s patriarchal laws.
This is not a book about headscarves, and yet they play a major role, because often it’s precisely when a woman takes hers off as a symbol of inner liberation that the problems begin. Ayla Işik describes her journey out of her strict Muslim community and into a life of self-determination. For women striving for freedom, this quite often means giving up children, being condemned by their families and community, and ending up with nothing financially, since in many cases they do not have any professional training and, as a result, no financial independence. Why would a wife and mother nevertheless choose freedom over social, religious, and financial security? A book that exemplifies how difficult yet rewarding it is to strike out on one’s own.
