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THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT
Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 90s through to their meeting in San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is a hilarious, timely, and provocative novel about Muslim immigrants in modern America.
Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy growing up in Karachi, Pakistan. But it is 1995, and as fundamentalists in the government become increasingly strident and the zealots next door start patrolling the streets to help make Islam great again, his family decides, not quite unanimously, to start life over in California. The irony is not lost on Anvar that in America, his deeply devout mother and his model-Muslim brother are the ones who fit right in with the tightly knit and gossipy desi community, while his fun-loving dad suddenly can't find a good meal or anyone to talk with. Anvar wants more. He's tired of being a good Muslim.
Thousands of miles away, Safwa, a young girl living in war-torn Baghdad with her grief-stricken, conservative father will find a far more dangerous path to America. Their two narratives are intrinsically linked and when their worlds come together, the fates of two remarkably different people intertwine and set off a series of events that rock their communities to their core.
The Bad Muslim Discount is a witty, very human literary feat, and a celebration of the kind of diversity that makes this country great. With deep insight, warmth, and an irreverent sense of humor, Syed Masood examines quirky and intense familial relationships, arranged marriage, Islamic identity, and how to live together in modern America.
SYED M. MASOOD grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. A first-generation immigrant twice-over, he has been a citizen of three different countries and nine different cities. He currently lives in San Francisco, California, where he is a practicing attorney. He is the author of the upcoming young-adult novel MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY FACE.
Thousands of miles away, Safwa, a young girl living in war-torn Baghdad with her grief-stricken, conservative father will find a far more dangerous path to America. Their two narratives are intrinsically linked and when their worlds come together, the fates of two remarkably different people intertwine and set off a series of events that rock their communities to their core.
The Bad Muslim Discount is a witty, very human literary feat, and a celebration of the kind of diversity that makes this country great. With deep insight, warmth, and an irreverent sense of humor, Syed Masood examines quirky and intense familial relationships, arranged marriage, Islamic identity, and how to live together in modern America.
SYED M. MASOOD grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. A first-generation immigrant twice-over, he has been a citizen of three different countries and nine different cities. He currently lives in San Francisco, California, where he is a practicing attorney. He is the author of the upcoming young-adult novel MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY FACE.
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Published 2021-02-02 by Doubleday |