![]() ![]() A lot of the concepts of the book were so foreign to me, like parties with boys playing spin the bottle and two minutes in the closet. For 8th grade, my family immigrated to California and for the first time I felt like I was experiencing the life that I had read about in the book.Īs I’ve gotten older, I realized that “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” not only was a roadmap for me to navigate puberty, but it was also something that became important to me as I experienced the culture shock of moving from the Middle East to America. I spent eight years of my adolescence living in Saudi Arabia, where I observed a very strong gender dichotomy. ![]() It was also in many ways normalizing feelings that I had growing up, but could never explore or discuss. I felt like I was in a secret club and I was learning about things that I wasn’t allowed to ask about, let alone, think about. ![]()
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