American Dervish
A Novel
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4.3 • 15 Ratings
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world.
Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes.
American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.
Customer Reviews
American Dervish
Experiences that all immigrants go through when they move to America. Very vividly described and very balanced as it must have taken the author some guts to criticize what is right and what is wrong with his culture
Thoroughly recommend it to all