Book: The Bad Muslim Discount
Author: Syed Masood
Pages: 368
This is my 73rd read for the year
What Amazon Says:
It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing hi 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, thousans 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.
This was a pretty good book. It stars out strong, and I found the writing quite good. I like the characters and how the two main characters meet. There is a lot of historical background intertwined in the fictional story of these two families moving to America. Safwa's story is the harder of the two to read, but it ends postively. It is a story of immigration to the United States in the wake of 9/11 and I am glad I read it. Good flow and good story.
Stars: 4
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