American Dervish

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Call Number: Fiction / Akhtar, Ayad
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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A young Pakistani boy, whose parents left the fundamentalists behind when they came to America, finds transformation and a path to happiness through a family friend, Mina, who shows him the beauty and power of the Quran.

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Hoping to read this submitted by Annie B. on July 23, 2012, 12:24pm Sounds like a great book and interesting perspective.

Meditation on identity and religion submitted by redwood on June 13, 2022, 12:28pm Akhtar's young Midwestern protagonist is exposed to a variety of views on Islam from the adults in his life--views to varied that they are tough to reconcile. A portrait of religious life in a small immigrant American community, of the seeds of intolerance.