Asra Nomani is a Wall Street Journal reporter. She is determined to go to Mecca, Islam's most sacred place, for understanding her own religious traditions. All muslims must go there once, while the non-muslims are strictly prohibited. Nomani had a boyfriend while in Pakistan who abandons her when she gets pregnant, but she decides to keep the baby. Nomani goes on pilgrimage to Mecca with her infant son, who is a proof of the fact that she is an unmarried women and guilty of zina or illegal sex. If discovered, she may face terrible consequences. During her hajj, she gets to learn about courage and hope from various heroic muslim women. Returning back to US, Nomani stands to fight for women's rights in Islam, starting with her hometown mosque. Nomani chronicles the facts of her geographic and spiritual journey in this memoir.
