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Growing up as a first generation Pakistani-American in the suburbs of Wisconsin was, at best, unusual circumstance for a young boy. Hayat Shah`s life brightens when his mother`s best friend, Mina, shows up from Pakistan to rebuild her life after a vicious divorce back in her homeland. Beautiful, brilliant, and devout, Mina teaches the eleven-year old Hayat about his Islamic faith, opening him up to a way of life that seems, to him, as wondrous as Mina herself. But when Mina falls in love with Hayat`s father best friend, Nathan Wolff, a local Jewish intellectual and doctor, problems ensue. The local Muslim-American community`s anti-Semitism blends and incubates Hayat`s jealousy about losing Mina, driving a dramatic rift through the Shah household. Set in the 1980s, American Dervish chronicles young Hayat`s journey deep into the Islamic faith, and the damage his journey inflicts on the one person he loves more than anyone, Mina.ISBN-9781780220710
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Pages : 288
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