Call Me American: A Memoir

by Abdi Nor Iftin

Book Overview

Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies.

Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525433023
• ISBN13: 9780525433026
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"