A review by more_books_than_days
We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib

5.0

Samra explores her identity and history as a queer Muslim immigrant. This is her story of passage over borders, through trauma, and into a world she finally recognized as hers to shape. Her life to control. Her body in to be allowed the full extents of freedom, and to experience being loved exactly as she is. Her voice in the memoir is succinct, and accessible. The words flow easily, and are not burdened by the lofty academia she alludes to. Instead she has created a source for others to find refuge in, for queer, for Muslim, for immigrant, for the non-conformers, and the asylum seekers of this world. Her story is an offering of hope, and a tethering of one life to another through the act of writing and reading.