Native Believer
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Sell my copyAuthor: Ali Eteraz
Title: Native Believer
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 271
Release Date: 2016
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"Native Believer stands as an important contribution to American literary culture: a book quite unlike any I've read in recent memory, which uses its characters to explore questions vital to our continuing national discourse around Islam." --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
"[A] poignant and profoundly funny first novel. . . . Eteraz combines masterful storytelling with intelligent commentary to create a nuanced work of social and political art." --Booklist
Ali Eteraz's much-anticipated debut novel is the story of M., a supportive husband, adventureless dandy, lapsed believer, and second-generation immigrant who wants nothing more than to host parties and bring children into the world as full-fledged Americans. As M.'s life gradually fragments around him--a wife with a chronic illness; a best friend stricken with grief; a boss jeopardizing a respectable career--M. spins out into the pulsating underbelly of Philadelphia, where he encounters others grappling with fallout from the War on Terror. Among the pornographers and converts to Islam, punks and wrestlers, M. confronts his existential degradation and the life of a second-class citizen.
Darkly comic, provocative, and insightful, Native Believer is a startling vision of the contemporary American experience and the human capacity to shape identity and belonging at all costs.
EAN: 9781617754364
Package Dimensions: Height: 8 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 0.61508971098 Pounds, Width: 0.9 Inches
Languages: en
