American Dervish

by Ayad Akhtar

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, a stirring and explosive debut 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 parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes.

American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

  • ISBN10 0316223913
  • ISBN13 9780316223911
  • Publish Date 2 January 2013 (first published 1 January 2012)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 11 September 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Little, Brown & Company
  • Imprint Back Bay Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Language English