You tink you know me –

Ayaan Mohamud

Samenvatting van You think you know me

Hanan has always been encouraged to be a good girl, a quiet girl, never making trouble.

When her classmates treat her as a target for their racist bullying, and her teachers use her as their perfect Muslim poster girl, she keeps smiling and keeps her mouth shut. They don’t see past her headscarf, but she knows she is so much more than that. Then a local man is murdered, tensions run high and Muslims become targets for even worse abuse. After a terrifying attack, Hanan decides that it’s time to make her voice heard…it’s time to shake the world.

My favorite lines out of the book:

“Dhagaxdhunkoo, ama dharbaax, waa isugu mid.”

“A stone is a stone, whether you kiss it or slap it?”

“It’s the English that mess it up! I’d say:’ A stone is a stone, a slap or kiss won’t make a difference'”

“You are going to have to connect the dots for me”

“You are so afraid to do you speech, but maybe your speech won’t change anything. So who cares if you give them a slap!”