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The bad Muslim discount : a novel / Syed M. Masood.
"Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 90s through to San Francisco in 2016, a comic novel about being Muslim immigrants in modern America"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780385545259 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 357 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Pakistani Americans > Fiction. Iraqi Americans > Fiction. Muslim families > United States > Fiction. Immigrants > United States > Fiction. Immigrant families > United States > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Masoo | 31681010224061 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A homesick Pakistani immigrant chafing against the strictures of his familyâs new devout Muslim life in California and a young woman who barely escaped war-torn Baghdad upend their community in the aftermath of a fateful chance encounter. A first novel. - Baker & Taylor
A comic novel about Muslim immigrants in modern America follows two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s through to San Francisco in 2016. - Random House, Inc.
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.
âMasoodâs 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.â âThe 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.
