Beyond the Moon

By Shanaz Hosany

Beyond the Moon is an intimate collection of poetry about enormous stigma, Otherness and marginality, detailing with my personal experiences as a young woman living on the cusp of two very different worlds. As a young girl growing up in the United Kingdom, I was continuously made aware of my ethnic differences. The conventional Western education made no allusion to the Mauritian Muslim; I found no commonplace, no companionship with another in this world, no one like me.

Even I deceived myself with the expectation to normalise and acclimatise to the Barbie doll model. I was taught that I was not beautiful because I did not resemble this traditional model. Thus, this collection of poetry materialises and communicates such experiences, exploring the 'dark side of the moon'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1035807491
• ISBN13: 9781035807499
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Austin Macauley
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"