A searingly honest memoir of one young woman’s journey toward self-acceptance as she involves find her body as symbolic of rebellion and hope and selects to live her existence unapologetically.

Ever since she was small, Leah Vernon was told what to believe and how to act. There wasn’t any area for imperfection. Great Muslim women listened more than they spoke. They didn’t possess a missing dad or a mom with mental disease. They didn’t possess fat body or grow up wishing they could be just like the about Unashamed: Musings of the Fat, Dark Muslim white character types they noticed on Television. They didn’t have husbands who abused and cheated to them. They certainly didn’t possess magic formula abortions. In Unashamed, Vernon takes to job the misconception of the perfect Muslim female with frank dispatches on her love-hate relationship with her hijab and her faith, race, fat, mental illness, home assault, sexuality, the millennial world of dating, and the process of finding her voice.

She opens up about her tumultuous adolescence living at the poverty collection with her fiercely loving but troubled mother, her deadbeat father, and her siblings, and the violent dissolution of her 10-year marriage. Sick and tired of the continuous policing of her clothes in the name of Islam and Western beauty specifications, Vernon reflects on her experiences with hustling paycheck to salary, body-shaming, and redefining what it means to be always a “good” Muslim.

Irreverent, fresh, and funny, Unashamed gives anyone who is marginalized permission to live unapologetic, confident lives.