So movements beyond one's accustomed space carry a cost. Yet so too does intransigence. Mo, the Muslim American architect whose family migrated from India, reflects at one point that he seems "bound to disturb every space he entered" (197). Yet his refusal to explain and interpret his design need not be read simply as egotistical misjudgment or a lack of flexibility.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 285