American Dervish

by Ayad Akhtar

Book Overview

From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world.

Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031618330X
• ISBN13: 9780316183307
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.4"