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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-02 Pages: 448 Language: English Publisher: Little Brown and Company 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.Mina is Hayats mothers oldest friend from Pakistan. She is independent. beautiful and intelligent. and arrives on the Shahs doorstep when her disastrous marriage in Pakistan disintegrates. Even Hayats skeptical father cant deny the liveliness and happiness that accompanies Mina into their home. Her deep spirituality brings the familys Muslim faith to life in a way that resonates with Hayat as nothing has before. Studying the Quran by Minas side and basking in the glo...
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"American Dervish" is an intelligent, courageously honest book about religion that never bogs down in dogma, proscriptions, or easy answers. The characters are memorable and alive, most of all the narrator's fierce, tough-minded mother and gorgeous, tragically principled "auntie," who in different ways help the young narrator on his difficult path of doubt, faith, and, hopefully, happiness. The story is as stirring and thought-provoking as it is compulsively page-turning."--Kate Christensen, author of "The Astral "and "The Great Man "
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- PublisherBack Bay Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0316223913
- ISBN 13 9780316223911
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages448
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