The Bad Muslim Discount The Bad Muslim Discount

The Bad Muslim Discount

A Novel

    • 5.0 • 4 Ratings
    • $13.99
    • $13.99

Publisher Description

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America.

“Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim America: the way historical conflict in the Middle East lingers in individual lives, the way gossip travels in a close-knit immigrant community.” —The New York Times Book Review

It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again, his family decides, not quite unanimously, to start life over in California. Ironically, Anvar's deeply devout mother and his model-Muslim brother adjust easily to life in America, while his fun-loving father can't find anyone he relates to. For his part, Anvar fully commits to being a bad Muslim.

At the same time, thousands of miles away, Safwa, a young girl living in war-torn Baghdad with her grief-stricken, conservative father will find a very different and far more dangerous path to America. When Anvar and Safwa's worlds collide as two remarkable, strong-willed adults, their contradictory, intertwined fates will rock their community, and families, to their core.

The Bad Muslim Discount is an irreverent, poignant, and often hysterically funny debut novel by an amazing new voice. With deep insight, warmth, and an irreverent sense of humor, Syed M. Masood examines universal questions of identity, faith (or lack thereof), and belonging through the lens of Muslim Americans.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
February 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
2.4
MB
Homeland Elegies Homeland Elegies
2020
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
2014
The Arrangement The Arrangement
2013
The Precious One The Precious One
2015
American Dervish American Dervish
2012
Again and Again Again and Again
2023
More Than Just a Pretty Face More Than Just a Pretty Face
2020
The Last Man in Paradise The Last Man in Paradise
2024
Danse avec moi Danse avec moi
2023
Sois-beau et tais-toi ! Sois-beau et tais-toi !
2022
Sway with Me Sway with Me
2021
Man of My Time Man of My Time
2020
Love Marriage Love Marriage
2022
Assembly Assembly
2021
American Dervish American Dervish
2012
Last Summer on State Street Last Summer on State Street
2022
Marrying the Ketchups Marrying the Ketchups
2022