The Bad Muslim Discount av Syed M. Masood

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<b><b>Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, <i>The Bad Muslim Discount</i> is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America.</b></b><br><br><b>“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.” —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br></b><br>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 fi